ABSTRACT

This book takes a fresh look at secondary urban English classrooms and at what happens when students and their teachers explore literature collaboratively. By closely examining what happens in English lessons, minute by minute, it reveals how literary texts function not as a valorised heritage to be transmitted, but as a resource for the students

chapter 1|9 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|19 pages

Literacies and literature

chapter 4|22 pages

Reading classrooms: towards a methodology

chapter 9|20 pages

Reading together over time

chapter 12|7 pages

Conclusion