Creative Writing in Schools: History, Poetry, Writers and Children

by Mick Gowar

Through a focus on history, language, and the child-as-writer, this book grapples with changing approaches to creativity in the classroom. Gowar places the teaching of creative writing in schools within the context of the history of ideas, tracing the idea that pupils should be engaged creatively when learning to write, from the teaching of classical rhetoric in Tudor grammar schools, through the philosophies of Comenius and Pestalozzi, to the 'progressive'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041582303X
• ISBN13: 9780415823036
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 228 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"