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Bloomsbury Making Poetry Matter International Research on Poetry Pedagogy 2015 Edition by Dr Sue Dymoke, Dr Andrew Lambirth, Dr Anthony Wilson
Making Poetry Matter draws together contributions from leading scholars in the field to offer a variety of perspectives on poetry pedagogy. A wide range of topics are covered including:- teacher attitudes to teaching poetry in the urban primary classroom- digital poetry and multimodality- resistance to poetry in Post-16 English.The internationally recognised contributors draw on data collected through a variety of research methods, including case studies, to ensure that theory on poetry pedagogy is clearly linked to practice. They consider teaching and learning poetry in classrooms across the 5 - 19 age range from different perspectives, looking at reading; writing; speaking and listening and transformative poetry cultures.