Poetry and Pedagogy across the Lifespan Disciplines, Classrooms, Contexts [Hardcover]

This book explores poetry and pedagogy in practice across the lifespan. Poetry is directly linked to improved literacy, creativity, personal development, emotional intelligence, complex analytical thinking and social interaction: all skills that are crucial in contemporary educational systems. However, a narrow focus on STEM subjects at the expense of the humanities has led educators to deprioritize poetry and to overlook its interdisciplinary, multi-modal potential. The editors and contributors argue that poetry is not a luxury, but a way to stimulate linguistic experiences that are formally rich and cognitively challenging. To learn through poetry is not just to access information differently, but also to forge new and different connections that can serve as reflective tools for lifelong learning. This interdisciplinary book will be of value to teachers and students of poetry, as well as scholars interested in literacy across the disciplines.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- SECTION I: POETRY ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES AND MODALITIES.- Chapter 2. Push the Envelope: An Alternative to Testing and the Teaching of Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts; Jacqueline Barrios.- Chapter 3. Reading Poetry Through Dance; Vivian Delchamps.- Chapter 4. The Chemistry of Poetry and the Poetics of Chemistry; Angela Sorby and Tracy Thompson.- Chapter 5. Poetry and Accounting: Two Roads Converged in a Wood; Rich Tobin.- Chapter 6. Multimodal Encounters, with Two Case Studies in the Recovery of the Black Signifier; Jim Cocola.- Chapter 7. Resounding Text: Teaching Poetry and Sound; Tomie Hahn, Jeffrey Summit, Sean Williams.- Chapter 8. Teaching Poetry with Painting; Sandra Lee Kleppe.- Chapter 9. Pedagogies of Personhood: The Place of Lyric in Cultural Criminology; Jesse Zuba.- SECTION II. POETRY PEDAGOGIES AND THEORIES FOR THE CLASSROOM.- Chapter 10. Helping High School Readers View Challenging Texts through the Lens of Literary Theory; Hallie RichmolCE