Making Poetry Matter: International Research on Poetry Pedagogy

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.

Introduction, Sue Dymoke (School of Education, University of Leicester, UK), Andrew Lambirth (School of Education, University of Greenwich, UK) and Anthony Wilson (Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter, UK)
Part I: Speaking and Listening
1. From Page to Performance, Janine L. Certo (Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University, USA)
2. Listening to the Voice of Poetry, Joy Alexander (School of Education, Queens University, Belfast)
3. Interpreting Classroom Responses to Heard Poetry, John Gordon (Department of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK)
4. Commentary on the Emerging Issues, Julie Blake (Poetry Archive, UK)
Part II: Reading
5. Teachers as Readers of Poetry, Teresa Cremin (Open University, UK)
6. Primary Student Teachers' Attitudes towards Poetry, Fiona Collins (Roehampton University, UK) and Alison Kelly (Roehampton University, UK)
7. Exploring Resistance to Poetry in Advanced English Studies, Gary Snapper (Brunel University, UK, and Cheney School, Oxford, UK)
8. Commentary on the Emerging Issues, David Whitely (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK)
Part III: Writing
9. Developing Grammar and Metalinguistic Understanding through Poetry Writing, Debra Myhill (College of Social Sciences and International Studies, University of Exeter, UK)
10. Teachers' Metaphors for Poetry Writing Pedagogy, Anthony Wilson (Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter, UK)
11. Ecocritical Approaches to Writing Nature Poetry, Sasha Matthewman (University of Bristol, UK)
12. Leading and Teaching Poetry 5-11, Andrew Lambirth (School of Education, University of Greenwich, UK), Sarah Smith (School of Education, University of Greenwich, UK) and Susanna Steele (School of Education, University of Greenwich, UK)
13. Commentary on the Emerging Issues, Jane Spiro (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Part IV: Transformative Poetry Cultures
14. Developing Poetry Pedagogy for EAL Learners, Vicky Obied (Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
15. Teaching Poetry in New Zealand Secondary Schools at a Time of Curriculum Change, Sue Dymoke (School of Education, University of Leicester, UK)
16. Using Digital Poetry to Provide a Multimodal Literacy Experience, Janette Hughes (Faculty of Education, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada)
17. Commentary on the Emerging Issues, Andrey Rosowsky (School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK)
18. Afterword, Myra Barrs (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, UK) and Morag Styles (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK)
Index