Poetry and the Meaning of Life (Pippin Teacher's Library, 38) - Softcover

Hanauer, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887511066 ISBN 13: 9780887511066

Publisher: Pippin Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

A poem can explain the inexplicable and express the unexpressed. This is how reading poetry enhances understanding and writing poetry helps students say things that they could not say in any other way. And it's why David Hanauer believes that poetry deserves to play a central role in classroom literacy programs.

In Poetry and the Meaning of Life, David explains how teachers can use poems to help students understand and express important thoughts, feelings, and experiences. He does this by discussing theories of reading and writing and relating these to vignettes that demonstrate how real teachers in real classrooms have used poetry to put these theories into practice -- with emergent and beginning readers, with mature readers, and with English language learners. The book concludes with a clarion call to teachers to use the transformative power of poetry to encourage their students to search out the meaning in their own lives.

About this title

About the Author

David Ian Hanauer, PHD, is associate professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His interests encompass literary theory, cognitive psychology, educational literacy, and applied linguistics, and his research has included empirical studies of poetry, poetry reading in a variety of settings, graffiti, the narratives of migrants, cross-cultural understandings of the parables of Jesus, the construction of moral points in fables, and the role of literature in language teaching. He has published extensively in a variety of journals and has taught at Tel Aviv University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Purdue University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pippin Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887511066
• ISBN 13: 9780887511066
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96