Abstract
Set against the backdrop of children being “alienated” from their writing (Lambirth 2016), this paper is taken from a UKLA sponsored project where primary school teachers were trained to use process drama in order to give children more agency in their writing across the curriculum. Here we use discourse analysis (Gee 2010) to think about the children’s historical creative writing in relation to the drama lessons which are differently framed (Bernstein 2000) by the teachers. Building upon a theoretical model of drama as “blended space” (Duffy 2014) and writing as problem-solving (Bereiter and Scardamalia 1986), a case is made that process drama can lead to what we term ‘agentic writing’. Agentic writing, we demonstrate, involves children actively translating their embodied experience of the blended space into writing by making a range of intertextual borrowings. These borrowing serve both to capture and transform their embodied experience as the children gain agency by “standing outside language” to achieve “double voicedness” (Bakthin 1986). Seeing the relationship between process drama and writing in this light, we argue, provides a means of reconnecting children to the act of writing.
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Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12145 |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1302 Curriculum And Pedagogy, Education, |
Depositing User (symplectic) | Deposited by Dobson, Thomas |
Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2017 10:10 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2024 18:39 |
Item Type: | Article |
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T Dobson
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L Stephenson
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