{"title":"Hearts, Minds and ‘My Hands’: Narrating the Literary Sociability of a Creative Writing Lesson","authors":"Lewis Goodacre","doi":"10.1080/1358684x.2022.2034109","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay explores an English lesson I taught to a Year 9 class in which students drew upon and narrativised personal experiences. I describe and examine the literary sociability of the lesson, by which I mean the social and cultural exchanges that give shape to students’ reading and writing. In doing so, I demonstrate the need for policymakers to treat school English as a social practice and to make students’ experiences central to the curriculum.","PeriodicalId":54156,"journal":{"name":"Changing English-Studies in Culture and Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Changing English-Studies in Culture and Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684x.2022.2034109","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This essay explores an English lesson I taught to a Year 9 class in which students drew upon and narrativised personal experiences. I describe and examine the literary sociability of the lesson, by which I mean the social and cultural exchanges that give shape to students’ reading and writing. In doing so, I demonstrate the need for policymakers to treat school English as a social practice and to make students’ experiences central to the curriculum.