Lessons in Culture: Oral Storytelling in a Literature Classroom

Autor/in	Railton, Nikki
Titel	Lessons in Culture: Oral Storytelling in a Literature Classroom
Quelle	In: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 22 (2015) 1, S.50-59 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-684X
DOI	10.1080/1358684X.2014.992210
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Oral Language; Story Telling; Grade 9; English Instruction; Literature; Oral Tradition; Student Centered Learning; Urban Schools; Urban Youth; Cultural Influences; Self Concept; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Literatur; Oral history; Mündliche Überlieferung; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Youth; Jugend; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	This essay charts the experiences of a group of Year 10 students studying literature together. I challenge the current educational thinking that the literature classroom should consist exclusively of a set of canonised texts handed down from teacher to student. Instead I consider the importance of ensuring students have space to explore themselves in what they study. With this in mind, I attempt to bring students' culture into the classroom through storytelling; the students take part in a series of lessons where they tell, discuss and explore their own oral traditions. I explore the problem of conceptualising culture as an identity descriptor rather than as something rooted in experience, in the social and in history. I conclude that it is not some reified notion of culture but the student that should be at the centre of everything we do. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01