eprintid: 10109362
rev_number: 22
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datestamp: 2020-09-07 15:11:38
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type: article
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creators_name: Yandell, J
title: The creative sociability of English classrooms and ‘the true nature of stories'
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J77
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
abstract: In currently dominant accounts, English as a school subject, its content and
processes, are construed as an induction into a well-defined, already-established disciplinary
discourse or set of discourses. In an attempt to challenge this version of English, I present some
examples of autobiographical writing by secondary students and I tell the story of an observed
lesson. From these instances of practice, a different picture of English emerges – one where the
English classroom might be regarded as a place of literary sociability, where students enter into
dialogue with each other and with the literature that they read, and where the complex challenges
entailed in any attempt to represent experience in words is properly acknowledged.
date: 2020
date_type: published
official_url: https://www.aate.org.au/documents/item/2337
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1811531
lyricists_name: Yandell, John
lyricists_id: JYAND53
actors_name: Yandell, John
actors_id: JYAND53
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: English in Australia
volume: 55
number: 1
pagerange: 6-13
citation:        Yandell, J;      (2020)    The creative sociability of English classrooms and ‘the true nature of stories'.                   English in Australia , 55  (1)   pp. 6-13.          Green open access   
 
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