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The Social Construction of Meaning - Reading literature in urban English classrooms (Hardcover, New)
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The Social Construction of Meaning - Reading literature in urban English classrooms (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Research in Education
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This book takes a fresh look at secondary urban English classrooms
and at what happens when students and their teachers explore
literature collaboratively. By closely examining what happens in
English lessons, minute by minute, it reveals how literary texts
function not as a valorised heritage to be transmitted, but as a
resource for the students' work of cultural production and
contestation. The reading that is undertaken in classrooms has
tended to be construed as either a poor substitute or merely a
preparation for other reading, particularly for that paradigmatic
literacy event, the absorbed and simultaneously discriminating
consumption of the literary text by the independent, private
reader. This book argues for a different understanding of what
constitutes reading, an understanding that is informed by
historical and ethnographic perspectives and by psychological and
semiotic theory. It presents the case for a conception of reading
as an active, collaborative process of meaning-making and for a
fully social model of learning. Drawing extensively on data
gathered through classroom observation and filming of English
lessons taught over the course of a year by two teachers in a
London secondary school, the book explores students' engagement
with literary texts and the pedagogy that facilitates this
engagement. The book offers new insights into reading, and reading
literature in particular. It challenges the paradigm of reading
that is offered in government policy and the assumption, common to
much work within the field of 'new literacies', that 'schooled
literacy' is the already-known, the default, against which the
alternative literacy practices of homes and communities can be
defined. It will be valuable reading for researchers, teachers,
teacher educators and postgraduate students, and will have
particular appeal for those with an interest in the fields of
English studies and literacy.
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