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Creativity and learning in secondary English : teaching for a creative classroom /
Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group,
2012.
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| Colección: | David Fulton book
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Creativity and Learning in Secondary English; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Image credits; Introduction; A summary of content; Part I: The role of creativity in English; 1. English and creativity: A brief history; Beginnings: rationing creativity; Continuation: creativity helps you grow; Re-orientation: the creativity of everyday life; Rupture: deconstructing creativity; Re-construction 1: from critical literacy to a new aesthetic; Re-construction 2: creativity and genre; Re-construction 3: multimodality; Conclusion; Key texts.
- 2. Theories of creativity, English and learningEvolutionary creativity; Linguistic creativity; Literary creativity; Ordinary creativity and making meaning; Conclusion; Key texts; Part II: Creativity and the English curriculum; 3. Creativity, English and modality; Re-positioning the verbal; Images and words; Reading images; Combining words and still images in children's picturebooks; Exploring the mode of sound; Conclusion; Key texts; 4. Creativity as re-creativity; Developing a theory of re-creativity; From re-telling to re-writing; Writer-response: an alternative form of reading.
- Re-creativity and possible worldsExtreme re-creativity; Conclusion; Key texts; 5. Creativity and the class novel; What is the creativity of the novel and why is it important to English?; Extending the vocabulary of creativity; Vocabulary point no. 1: textualness/authoredness; Vocabulary point no. 2: ethics/otherness; Vocabulary point no. 3: text as event; Creativity, class-readers and choice; Conclusion; Key texts; 6. Listening, reading and creativity; Reading with the ear; Listening to how others read; Critical listening: voice and the class reader; Conclusion; Key texts.
- 7. Speaking, writing and creativityLinks between speaking and writing; Differences between speaking and writing; Conclusion; Key texts; 8. Critical-creativity; A critique of critique; Bringing creativity and criticality together; Paulo Freire: critical literacy, creativity and praxis; Key concepts in Freire's idea of praxis; P.E.E.: limiting criticality and creativity; Critical-creativity and wholeness; Newspaper work: from a skills-based to a critical-creative approach; Students as teachers: critical-creativity and role-play; Re-drafting as a critical-creative process; Conclusion; Key texts.
- 9. Creativity and cultureThe creativity of a common culture; From a common culture to multiculturalism; Multiculturalism and idioculture; What has all this to do with English and creativity?; Transforming cultures; Using Manga Shakespeare; The creativity of emerging cultures: gaming lessons for the non-gaming teacher; Traditional text as hypertext; Conclusion; Key texts; Conclusion: Creativity and not learning; Assessment for not learning; Not learning objectives; Not a plenary; Not literature; Not a text type; Not correctness; Not describing; Not vocabulary; Not writing; Not reading.