Routledge
210 pages
This collection offers an inclusive, multifaceted look at individual students’ patterns of writing trajectories, as well as their development of an identity as a writer. Building on rare longitudinal research, this translated text explores how adolescents learn subjects through writing and learn writing through subjects. Contributors consider issues relating to different forms of writing and grapple with students’ ambivalence or resistance to this at school, together offering an examination of how the education system can rise to the challenge of offering today’s students meaningful and appropriate writing instruction.
Bringing knowledge from writing researchers and educational researchers together, Understanding Young People’s Writing Development explores:
Using students’ work to aid the understanding of practice, this book will help highlight the importance of viewing individual writer developments from a social, institutional, and societal context, and raise questions that will advance writing pedagogy and the teaching and learning of school subjects.
List of figures
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Ellen Krogh and Karen Sonne Jakobsen
Chapter 1: Writing and writer development: A theoretical framework for longitudinal study
Karen Sonne Jakobsen and Ellen Krogh
Chapter 2: Extended formats: Students’ development as knowledge constructing writers
Ellen Krogh
Chapter 3: Practices, purposes, and identifications in student note writing
Torben Spanget Christensen
Chapter 4: Enabling and constraining: Digital technology in students’ writing and writer development
Nikolaj Elf
Chapter 5: Young adults’ complicated experiences with the school writing project
Peter Hobel
Chapter 6: Narratives as practice and potentials in adolescents’ writer development
Anke Piekut
Chapter 7: Identity work and writing development in mathematics
Steffen Møllegaard Iversen
Chapter 8: Creativity as experience and potential in writing development
Karen Sonne Jakobsen
Chapter 9: Writing and writer development: Pedagogical challenges and perspectives
Peter Hobel, Ellen Krogh, and Anke Piekut
