Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan: Disciplines, Classrooms, Contexts

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This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan. Poetry is directly linked to improved literacy, creativity, personal development, emotional intelligence, complex analytical thinking and social interaction: all skills that are crucial in contemporary educational systems. However, a narrow focus on STEM subjects at the expense of the humanities has led educators to deprioritize poetry and to overlook its interdisciplinary, multi-modal potential. The editors and contributors argue that poetry is not a luxury, but a way to stimulate linguistic experiences that are formally rich and cognitively challenging. To learn through poetry is not just to access information differently, but also to forge new and different connections that can serve as reflective tools for lifelong learning. This interdisciplinary book will be of value to teachers and students of poetry, as well as scholars interested in literacy across the disciplines. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Poetry and Accounting: “What Is It You Plan to Do with Your One Wild and Precious Life?” (Richard Tobin)....Pages 3-17 The Chemistry of Poetry: Transfer Across Disciplines (Angela Sorby, Tracy Thompson)....Pages 19-36 Teaching Poetry Through Dance (Vivian Delchamps)....Pages 37-55 Poetry and Pedagogy in St. Teresa of Avila (1515–1582): Affirming Life Lessons for Women (Anne M. Pasero)....Pages 57-71 Teaching Poetry with Painting: “Why Do You Thus Devise Evil Against Her?” (Sandra Lee Kleppe)....Pages 73-94 Whatever Gets You Through the Night: Poetry and Combat Trauma (Kristin G. Kelly)....Pages 95-115 Pedagogies of Personhood: The Place of Lyric in Cultural Criminology (Jesse Zuba)....Pages 117-138 Multimodal Encounter: Two Case Studies in the Recovery of the Black Signifier (Jim Cocola)....Pages 139-161 Front Matter ....Pages 163-163 Push the Envelope: An Alternative to Testing and the Teaching of Emily Dickinson’s Manuscripts (Jacqueline Jean Barrios)....Pages 165-186 “Ten Fat Sausages”: Poetic Sense Units, Vocabulary Chunks, and Language Acquisition in Young Learners (Christina Sandhaug)....Pages 187-209 Helping High School Readers Interpret Challenging Texts Using Lenses from Literary Theory (Hallie Smith Richmond, April Salerno)....Pages 211-235 The “Effanineffable” Weakness of Poetry: The Duality of Bringing Poetry into the Teacher Training Classroom (Johan Alfredsson)....Pages 237-253 English Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Study of Teacher Perspectives, Purposes, and Practices (Juliet Munden, Torunn Skjærstad)....Pages 255-276 Why Teach Poems About Animals? Animal Poetry Across Disciplines and the Life Span (Heidi Silje Moen)....Pages 277-301 Teaching Unlikely Poets: Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frances E. W. Harper (Brian Yothers)....Pages 303-325 Expanding the Turn: Using Poetry to Prepare Students for a Post-Truth World (Conor Bracken)....Pages 327-347 Back Matter ....Pages 349-378