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Poetry under control: social reproduction strategies and children’s literature

Poetry under control: social reproduction strategies and children’s literature

Lambirth, Andrew (2007) Poetry under control: social reproduction strategies and children’s literature. English in Education, 41 (3). pp. 94-107. ISSN 0425-0494 (doi:10.1111/j.1754-8845.2007.tb01168.x)

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Abstract

This paper arose from research into a class of 11-year-olds’ relationships with poetry. The paper describes how by analysing the children’s comments about poetry it became clear that their parents were active in rigorously selecting, censoring and generally controlling the children’s reading diet, most markedly with poetry, md that patterns began to emerge of how they went about this task. In an analysis drawing on Ball and Vincent’s (2005) work it became clear that processes of social reproduction were at work.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: [1] First published online 28th June 2008.
Uncontrolled Keywords: poetry, children’s literature, social reproduction, control, middle class struggle
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education
Pre-2014 Departments: School of Education
School of Education > Department of Primary Education
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Last Modified: 14 Oct 2016 09:16
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/6570

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