Introduction 1. The Power of Story 2. Story in the Classroom 3. Responding to Literature 4. Time to Read 5. Poetry Counts 6. Writing Poetry 7. Alternative Fiction 8. Finding out about Books
Biography
Geoff Fenwick trained as a teacher at the City of Leeds College and later gained an Advanced Diploma at Liverpool University and an M.Ed. degree at the University of Manchester. He taught in primary schools in Leeds, Uganda, and Lancashire and served as a deputy head for three years. He subsequently became a lecturer in education at the Ethel Wormald College, Liverpool and worked in a similar capacity at the School of Education and Community Studies at Liverpool Polytechnic. He worked with qualified teachers studying on a D.A.S.E. course in Children’s Literature, of which he was director, and with undergraduates working for awards in education and librarianship.
