Making Poetry Matter
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.
Sue Dymoke is Reader in Education and Secondary PGCE Course Leader in the School of Education at the University of Leicester, UK.
Andrew Lambirth is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Health at the University of Greenwich, UK.
Anthony Wilson is Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter, UK, where he is Subject Leader for PCGE Primary English.