Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan

1. Front Matter

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2. Poetry Across the Disciplines and Modalities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Poetry and Accounting: “What Is It You Plan to Do with Your One Wild and Precious Life?”

      • Richard Tobin

      Pages 3-17

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   3. The Chemistry of Poetry: Transfer Across Disciplines

      • Angela Sorby, Tracy Thompson

      Pages 19-36

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   4. Teaching Poetry Through Dance

      • Vivian Delchamps

      Pages 37-55

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   5. Poetry and Pedagogy in St. Teresa of Avila (1515–1582): Affirming Life Lessons for Women

      • Anne M. Pasero

      Pages 57-71

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   6. Teaching Poetry with Painting: “Why Do You Thus Devise Evil Against Her?”

      • Sandra Lee Kleppe

      Pages 73-94

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   7. Whatever Gets You Through the Night: Poetry and Combat Trauma

      • Kristin G. Kelly

      Pages 95-115

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   8. Pedagogies of Personhood: The Place of Lyric in Cultural Criminology

      • Jesse Zuba

      Pages 117-138

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   9. Multimodal Encounter: Two Case Studies in the Recovery of the Black Signifier

      • Jim Cocola

      Pages 139-161

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3. Poetry Pedagogies and Theories in the Classroom

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Push the Envelope: An Alternative to Testing and the Teaching of Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts

      • Jacqueline Jean Barrios

      Pages 165-186

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   3. “Ten Fat Sausages”: Poetic Sense Units, Vocabulary Chunks, and Language Acquisition in Young Learners

      • Christina Sandhaug

      Pages 187-209

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   4. Helping High School Readers Interpret Challenging Texts Using Lenses from Literary Theory

      • Hallie Smith Richmond, April Salerno

      Pages 211-235

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   5. The “Effanineffable” Weakness of Poetry: The Duality of Bringing Poetry into the Teacher Training Classroom

      • Johan Alfredsson

      Pages 237-253

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   6. English Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Study of Teacher Perspectives, Purposes, and Practices

      • Juliet Munden, Torunn Skjærstad

      Pages 255-276

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   7. Why Teach Poems About Animals? Animal Poetry Across Disciplines and the Life Span

      • Heidi Silje Moen

      Pages 277-301

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   8. Teaching Unlikely Poets: Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frances E. W. Harper

      • Brian Yothers

      Pages 303-325

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   9. Expanding the Turn: Using Poetry to Prepare Students for a Post-Truth World

      • Conor Bracken

      Pages 327-347

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4. Back Matter

   Pages 349-378

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This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan. Poetry is directly linked to improved literacy, creativity, personal development, emotional intelligence, complex analytical thinking and social interaction: all skills that are crucial in contemporary educational systems. However, a narrow focus on STEM subjects at the expense of the humanities has led educators to deprioritize poetry and to overlook its interdisciplinary, multi-modal potential. The editors and contributors argue that poetry is not a luxury, but a way to stimulate linguistic experiences that are formally rich and cognitively challenging. To learn through poetry is not just to access information differently, but also to forge new and different connections that can serve as reflective tools for lifelong learning. This interdisciplinary book will be of value to teachers and students of poetry, as well as scholars interested in literacy across the disciplines.

• Poetry and education
• Poems in the classroom
• Poetry and pedagogy
• Hip hop and pedagogy
• Learning with poems

“This is a book that may well transform thinking about poetry forever. Its authors explode the many myths and misconceptions about how one reads, understands and utilises the affordance of poems. They demand a re-imagining of the practice of poetry and show how poems, in all their manifestations, can offer unique satisfactions for the many and not just the few. This is a refreshing, exciting and much needed book that will make a difference to how poetry is read, taught and enjoyed.” (Professor Andrew Lambirth, Immediate Past President of the UK Literacy Association)

• Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar, Norway

  Sandra Lee Kleppe

• Department of English, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA

  Angela Sorby

Sandra Lee Kleppe is Professor at Inland University of Applied Sciences, Norway. Her monograph The Poetry of Raymond Carver is the first of its kind on Carver’s poetry production. She is also Director of the International Raymond Carver Society.
 
Angela Sorby is Professor of English at Marquette University, USA. An award-winning author of three volumes of poetry, she has also published the monograph Schoolroom Poets, and numerous articles on poetry from an academic perspective.

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