The Social Construction of Meaning: Reading Literature in Urban English Classrooms

by John Yandell

This book takes a fresh look at secondary urban English classrooms and at what happens when students and their teachers explore literature collaboratively. By closely examining what happens in English lessons, minute by minute, it reveals how literary texts function not as a valorised heritage to be transmitted, but as a resource for the students' work of cultural production and contestation.

The reading that is undertaken in classrooms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415855993
• ISBN13: 9780415855990
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"