Direction for Creative Writing Teachers, a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective

First Edition: BCTF Lesson Aids (Vancouver, BC), 2006. Second Edition: Academic Exchange Extra (University of Northern Colorado [Greeley, CO]), 2007 (January to March). Third Edition: The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education (Quesnel, BC), 2008 (Summer). Revised Edition: LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022. Blurb This book is a collection of internationally published chapters by the author. It is a comprehensive guide for teachers who are interested in teaching creative writing, and includes extensive direction about what sorts of activities and events may encourage some students to become adult creative writers. Chapters about tact and the nature of encouragement highlight the teacher's responsibility to create a classroom environment that promotes individuality and creative expression. The work, five years in the making, utilizes three of the author's research projects in which he interviewed established Canadian writers about experiences in school that had encouraged them to become adult creative writers. The research details explicit methodology with respect to conducting hermeneutic phenomenological studies. Methodology includes bracketing bias and applying participant review and free imaginative variation to determine essential versus incidental themes within the qualitative paradigm. Various chapters, sections, and research in this textbook have appeared in one or more of Connected Magazine Online (Canada), Mentor: The Online Publication for Nova Scotia's Educators (Canada), The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education (Canada), Arts North (Canada), canadian content (Canada), The Alberta Teachers' Association Magazine (Canada), A Career Counselling Symposium (BCTF Lesson Aids, 2002: Canada), The Germans From Dortmund (y press, 1999: Canada) Academic Exchange Extra (USA), Teachers.Net Gazette (USA), The Online Writer (USA), The Journal (England), SchoolNet Africa (South Africa), The English Teachers' Online Network of South Africa, and Students On The Net (Singapore). The author Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).