1st Edition

Behind the Poem A Teacher's View of Children Writing

By Robert Hull Copyright 1988
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

Published in 1988, this book is a teacher’s eye view of how children come to write and rewrite poems, and of how they make aesthetic choices in their writing. Drawing on over twenty years’ experience of teaching poetry in primary and secondary schools, Robert Hull presents a detailed account of the process of writing poetry in the classroom. The reader is invited, almost in confidence, to be... Read more

Part I: Introduction. 1. ‘How do I get them to write poems?’ Part II: Process. 2. A New Class. 3. New Subjects. Part III: Dialogue. 4. Children’s ‘Autonomy’. 5. Intervention. Part IV: Context. 6. Literary Models. 7. The World Out There. 8. Other Contexts. Part V: Relations. 9. Productions and Relations. 10. ‘But is it Poetry?’

Biography

Robert Hull