Generative Conversations for Creative Learning: Reimagining Literacy Education and Understanding

✍ Scribed by Gloria Latham,Robyn Ewing (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 240
Series: Creativity, Education and the Arts
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book builds on conversations between the author educators and other experts in the field, including authors, illustrators and teachers, to explore the benefits of discussions around quality literature within a classroom context that exercises the imagination and generates new ideas and discoveries. The book focuses on a range of strategies that can be utilised to reimagine literacy learning in a 21st century context including parent and teacher talk; active listening; fostering student driven questions; building vocabulary and imagery; and metacognitive talk. These are argued to have a hugely beneficial impact on how children learn to solve problems, engage in complex thought processes, negotiate meaning, as well as learning how to wonder, explore, create and defend ideas. The book also defends the importance of parents, teachers and academics as ‘storytellers’, using their bodies and voices as instruments of engagement and power. It will make compelling reading for students, teachers and researchers working in the fields of education and sociology, particularly those with an interest in creative methods for improving literacy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv
Conversation around the book’s beginning and central themes (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 1-9
Conversation around re-imagining literacy learning (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 11-23
Conversation around curiosity and creativity (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 25-35
Conversation around the power of the imagination (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 37-60
Conversation around some current tensions and debates in western education (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 61-70
Conversation around building a place for belonging (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 71-82
Conversation around the re-imagined learning environment (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 83-96
Conversation around story and storytelling (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 97-114
Conversation around 21st century teachers’ mindsets and roles (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 115-129
Conversation around questioning and providing feedback (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 131-140
Conversation around selecting quality literature (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 141-153
Conversation around the art of asking and responding to the big questions (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 155-169
Conversation around dramatic play (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 171-192
Conversation around poetry (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 193-206
Conversation around lingering questions and authentic assessment (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 207-218
Coda (Gloria Latham, Robyn Ewing)....Pages 219-220
Back Matter ....Pages 221-224

✦ Subjects

Creativity and Arts Education

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