- Title
- A clash of chronotopes: Adult reading of children's and young adult literature
- Creator
- Zeegers, Margaret; Pass, Charlotte; Jampole, Ellen
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/31751
- Identifier
- vital:4016
- Identifier
- ISSN:1447-9516
- Abstract
- In this paper we explore ways in which adults engage children's and young adult books in primary and secondary schools in relation to Bakhtin's (1981) posited chronotope. We base our discussion on an analysis of experienced practising teachers' own engagement with books that are offered to children and young adults as part of teachers' didactic activities in developing literacy skills and literature appreciation in classrooms, drawing on the concept of the chronotope as going beyond the didactic to embrace the artistic and cultural in children's responses to their reading and writing. The suggestive possibilities of the chronotope as an organising feature of teaching reading and writing in a number of genres and production of text types, affords new ways of approaching reading by teachers, at the same time as it invites these teachers to examine their own responses to the literature that they engage in the process. The concept of the chronotope opens up spaces for literary and pedagogical responses that derive from children's own experience of their world, but we argue that teacher responses that are restricted by their own views of the world may inhibit a full exploration by children of the possibilities that the books that they encounter as didactically bound and culturally limiting.
- Relation
- The International Journal of the Book Vol. 7, no. 4 (2010), p. 89-97
- Rights
- Copyright Common Ground
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Children; Books & reading; Literature; Young Adult
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