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Rumbold, Kate and Simecek, Karen (2016) Affective and cognitive responses to poetry in the university classroom. Changing English: studies in culture and education, 23 (4). pp. 335-350. doi:10.1080/1358684X.2016.1230468 ISSN 1358-684X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2016.1230468
Abstract
Is there space for greater affective engagement with poetry in the English Literature university classroom? This article reflects on how poetry is currently taught in higher education and argues for the need for affective response in the study of poetry. In universities, as in mainstream education more widely, cognitive approaches to poetry are often dominant. Far from being irrelevant to the serious study of literature, we argue that eliciting students' affective responses
to poetry can deepen their cognitive understanding and analytical skills. Drawing on recent research in psychology on the relationship between cognition and affect, we show that poetry has particular potential to make us aware of the crucial interrelation of our cognitive and affective processes; and that bringing those responses into balance can deepen our understanding of poetry. Building on recent educational studies of typical student (and teacher) anxieties and assumptions about working with poetry, and on our observations from our own initial, exploratory seminars, we explore some of the obstacles to rebalancing the
cognitive and affective dimensions of poetry in higher education, and point to the potential value of such an approach if such obstacles are overcome.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Poetry -- Study and teaching, Education, Higher, Affective education | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Changing English: studies in culture and education | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
ISSN: | 1358-684X | ||||||
Official Date: | 13 October 2016 | ||||||
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Volume: | 23 | ||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 335-350 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/1358684X.2016.1230468 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 August 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 May 2018 |
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