Beyond Little Mind: Learning English for Self Exploration & Creative Expression
Abstract: After identifying some essential benefits in using creative writing in the ESL classroom, the presenter will lead the audience through two writing exercises designed to introduce young writers to the associative powers of language, and to the importance of making it personally relevant.
Meet our guest: Don Schofield
Bio: Recently retired from his position as a dean of Perrotis College (The
American Farm School), Don Schofield also served for many years as the Chair
of the English Literature and Modern Languages Department of the University of
La Verne, Athens Campus. His books include Approximately
Paradise (University Press of Florida, 2002); Kindled
Terraces: American Poets in Greece (Truman State University
Press, 2004); The Known: Selected Poems (of Nikos Fokas),
1981-2000 (Ypsilon Books, 2010),Before Kodachrome (FutureCycle
Press, 2012) and In Lands Imagination Favors (Dos Madres
Press, 2014). A recipient of the 2010 Criticos Prize (UK), he has also
received honors from, among others, the State University of New York, Anhinga
Press, Southern California Anthology and Princeton University,
where he was a Stanley J. Seeger Writer-in-Residence. He has been a resident of
Greece since 1980.
