Reading Students: Texts in Contexts.

Fairbanks, Colleen M.

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ERIC Number: EJ501016

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1995

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Reading Students: Texts in Contexts.

Fairbanks, Colleen M.

English Education, v27 n1 p40-52 Feb 1995

Considers 1 student's responses to literature assigned to a 10th-grade English class in the midwest. Asks if students can be expected to "decontextualize" their personal responses to literary texts. Questions the viability of such decontextualized readings. (HB)

Descriptors: Cultural Context, English Curriculum, English Instruction, English Teacher Education, High Schools, Reader Response, Story Telling

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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