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1 online resource (169 pages) |
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David Fulton book |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 questions, and others, by arguing for a version of creativity that sees it as an ordinary, everyday part of successful classroom practice, central to processes of meaning-making, dialogic interaction and textual engagement. In this construction, creativity is not just linked to learning; it is the d |
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Creative ability.
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General education.
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Education, Secondary.
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Education -- Teaching Methods and Materials -- Reading & Phonics
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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High school teaching.
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Junior high school teaching.
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creativity.
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secondary education.
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EDUCATION -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Secondary.
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EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Reading & Phonics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Junior high school teaching
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High school teaching
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Creative ability
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Education, Secondary
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
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General education
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136332913 |
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113633291X |
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9780203122488 |
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0203122488 |
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1280683880 |
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9781280683886 |
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9786613660824 |
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6613660825 |
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9781136332869 |
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1136332863 |
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9781136332906 |
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1136332901 |
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9780415620697 |
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0415620694 |
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9780415620703 |
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0415620708 |
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