Creative Writing for Critical Thinking

​Hélène Edberg is Senior Lecturer and Educational Developer at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research interests are based around applied linguistics and rhetoric. She has been teaching creative writing for over a decade, and is particularly interested in identification processes linked to learning through writing.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Creative Writing and Critical Thinking - From a romantic to a socio-critical view on creative writing.- Chapter 3. Basic outlines of the research.- Chapter 4. Discoursal identity and subject.- Chapter 5. Text as a site of negotiation: a model for text-analysis.- Chapter 6. Writers' positionings.- Chapter 7. Critical meta-reflection.- Chapter 8. A follow-up study - creative writing for critical meta-reflection in a different context.- Chapter 9. Concluding discussion about discoursal identity and learning critical thinking through creative writing.- Chapter 10. Creative writing for critical meta-reflection - some educational implications.