A Poetry Pedagogy For Teachers by Maya Pindyck & Ruth Vinz & Diana Liu & Ashlynn Wittchow

Description

A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers generates imaginative encounters with poetry and invites educators to practice a range of poetry exercises in order to inform instructional approaches to reading and writing. Guided by pedagogical principles prompted by their readings of Wallace Stevens? ?Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,? Maya Pindyck and Ruth Vinz provide critical discussion of prominent literacy practices in secondary classrooms and offer alternative approaches to encountering a text. They do this by way of experimental readings of Wallace Stevens? poem toward a set of thirteen pedagogical principles that anchor a pedagogy of poetic practices. The book also offers invitational exercises, the authors? own engagements with poetry practices, as well as student examples, visual modes of theorizing, and a gathering of relevant resources compiled by two classroom teachers.

ISBN: 9781350285392
Author(s): Maya Pindyck & Ruth Vinz & Diana Liu & Ashlynn Wittchow