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Lahey, Trace – English in Education, 2023
This study investigates the interpretive approaches of three English teachers working in different grade levels with the same poem, Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer." The researcher sought to learn what the teachers identified as most valuable about studying poetry in school, what interpretive approaches they employed…
Descriptors: English Literature, Poetry, Grade 6, Grade 9
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Dominic, Nah – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
Hitherto, student responses to ethically oriented pedagogies in Literature classrooms have rarely been studied in non-western, multicultural contexts, and often assume monolingual text selections in English. As an Outer Circle English-using society, Singapore presents a multicultural Asian context worth studying where students connect aesthetic…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Ethics, Grade 10, Secondary School Students
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Litten, Jonathan – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
This article presents a case study on the use of expressivist writing pedagogy as a practice of identity construction for an adolescent Chinese-Speaking English Language Learner (ELL) in a 6-12, college preparatory, international boarding school context. The study implements a narrative inquiry/content analysis framework to analyze themes of…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Identification (Psychology), Adolescents, Chinese
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Slaby, Scot; Benedict, Jordan – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2019
This paper explores students' engagement in reading poems, examining data on their self-perceptions of their confidence and competence in reading poems before, during, and after using the "I Notice" methodology as adapted from The Academy of American Poets' unit plan, "Noticing Poetry" (Slaby, 2017). The data was collected over…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Poetry, Data Analysis, Poets
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Gilmour, Rachael – English in Education, 2017
This article examines the relationship between the discipline of 'English Literature' and the contemporary multilingual classroom. It argues that, although our field has often been cast as a kind of corrective to the 'problem' of language diversity by helping to teach language norms, literature can -- and should -- be made a preeminent space for…
Descriptors: English Literature, Multilingualism, Correlation, Intellectual Disciplines
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Groenendijk, Talita; Janssen, Tanja; Rijlaarsdam, Gert; van den Bergh, Huub – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background. Previous research has shown that observation can be effective for learning in various domains, for example, argumentative writing and mathematics. The question in this paper is whether observational learning can also be beneficial when learning to perform creative tasks in visual and verbal arts. Aims. We hypothesized that observation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observational Learning, Secondary School Students, Creative Activities