Professor Ben Knights, Dr Chris Thurgar-Dawson

Active Reading

Transformative Writing in Literary Studies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Highlights the value of creative and re-creative transformational writing in learning and teaching and provides practical examples of its application. This book outlines the importance of writing as a medium of learning and argues for its usefulness in aiding English students' understanding of theoretical as well as literary and cultural texts.

Produktdetails

• Continuum Literary Studies
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9781847062635
• ISBN-10: 1847062636
• Artikelnr.: 23339310

Autorenporträt

Professor Ben Knights is Director of the English Subject Centre (part of the Higher Education Academy) and is a National Teaching Fellow at the University of Teesside, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
PART I: Pedagogic Context
1. Contexts
2. History and theory of a practice
3. From influence to intertextuality: literary production as re-making
4. Writing and literary criticism
PART II: Teaching, Learning and Assessment
5. Introductions, starters
6. Developing the group
7. As the work matures
8. Assessment
PART III: Beyond the Classroom
9. Creative and transformative writing in psychotherapy, counselling and
CPD
10. Towards the autonomous learner
Annotated bibliography
Appendices:
Examples of activities
Notes on choosing texts and anthologies
Indicative list of literary examples
Bibliography
Index