This study aims to shed light on the cultural models of literature and literature education reflected in Nordic L1 curricula by investigating how literature is given discursive significance in the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish L1 curricula for lower-secondary school, both within and across those four countries. Education in the Nordic countries is a field well suited for comparative analysis as the languages used are closely related and the countries' educational systems and policies are similar. In the study, we discuss how literary texts are given significance compared with other texts and what purposes of literature education are given a prominent place in the L1 curricula. The theoretical framework used derives from Gee's (2014) description of cultural models; we understand the national curricula as linguistically created realms of reality. The comparative analysis suggests that there are similar tendencies as well as distinct national differences. Prominent cultural models identified across the countries are a double position of literary texts and a high expectation on literature education. The study points to a need to discuss the status and purpose of literary texts in the Nordic L1 subjects in order to promote further mutual understanding and inspiration across borders.
This study explored the pedagogical implications of integrating creative dance into fifth-grade students' poetry reading and writing within the context of an educational design research project. Two teaching designs were developed and implemented by a researcher, a dance teaching artist, and two primary school teachers during two research cycles (the academic year of 2018-2019). Thinking with new materialism, a diffractive analysis was used to identify performative agents that make a difference in students' meaning-making processes. When dance was integrated, it became entangled with the poetry in students' meaning-making processes. The boundaries between reading, writing, and dancing became fluid, enhancing the attention to the materiality, relationality, and embodiment of the students' reading and writing processes. These results demonstrate that dance integration has the pedagogical potential to deepen and broaden the meaning-making in poetry reading and writing. This article therefore concludes by presenting some recommendations for how to integrate creative dance into first language and literature education.
This study investigates the use of dance and visual arts in poetry education by systematically reviewing peer-reviewed articles published on the topic from 2000 to 2019. The review focuses on empirical results in studies concerned with using dance and visual arts in poetry education and implications for poetry pedagogy in research and practice. The review encompasses 21 articles that were analysed thematically. The thematic analysis yielded seven themes: expand and deepen understandings of poetry; break curricular boundaries; interaction and collaboration; personal knowledge, reflection and experience; increase interest, motivation and confidence; challenges, limitations and constraints; and disciplinary knowledge. With research on this topic having increased in the 2010s, the findings show the potentials and challenges of using dance and visual arts in different ways in poetry education. Still, the research field is understudied, and many questions remain unanswered. Consequently, this study concludes with suggestions for future research on arts-based responses in poetry education. The study adds to the dialogue on poetry education and contributes to raising awareness of the possibilities and challenges of using dance and visual arts in the poetry classroom.
The term performativity is used in and across various research disciplines, such as language philosophy, gender and cultural studies, and art and literature studies. Inspired by former uses of the concept within other disciplines, this article elaborates on what performativity can offer in research on literary education. Using two theoretical conceptualisations of performativity, poststructuralist and posthumanist, the article explores empirical examples from the authors' previous studies. The analyses highlight how performativity emphasises and, maybe even more importantly, provides theoretical and conceptual tools for studying-ongoing processes and unfoldings in the literature classroom. Negotiation emerges as a key concept. Finally, the study provides suggestions on what performativity can offer in research on literary education, and relates this to recent issues in research on literary education in the Nordic countries as well as contemporary understandings of Bildung.
Pajtim Statovcis Min katt Jugoslavien är en av de mest uppmärksammade debutromanerna i Finland under 2010-talet. Dess mångtydighet, särskilt vad gäller symboliska och metaforiska tolkningsmöjligheter, har förundrat och fascinerat läsare både i Norden och internationellt. Romanens komplexitet gör den intressant såväl litterärt som litteraturdidaktiskt sett. Inom den nordiska litteraturdidaktiska forskningen har det de senaste åren vuxit ett intresse för att studera litteraturarbete med komplexa, litterära texter. Med utgångpunkt i begreppen kunskapsfält (Aase, 2005) och uafgørlighed (Johansen, 2018) utforskar och diskuterar vi i artikeln vilka litteraturdidaktiska överväganden en grupp gymnasielärare gör i samtal om romanen när deras avsikt är att använda romanen i litteraturundervisningen. Det empiriska materialet består av inspelade samtal mellan fyra finlandssvenska gymnasielärare. Analysen visar hur lärarnas litteraturdidaktiska överväganden utmynnar i en rad olika infallsvinklar på romanen, allt från att kontextualisera till att spegla, vidga och estetisera den litterära texten.
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