‘Personal’and‘critical’? Exam criteria,engagement with texts,and real readers’ responses |
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| Authors: | Fiona Richards-Kamal |
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| Institution: | Our Lady's Convent High School, Hackney |
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| Abstract: | This article explores how exam criteria require pupils to engage with texts at once 'personally' and 'critically'. It theorises this dichotomy, suggesting problems it presents in a classroom. Observing that dwindling opportunities for creative writing impede personal engagement, it considers the possibilities suggested by the imaginative writings of two pupils for resolving the dichotomy. |
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| Keywords: | Exam criteria reader response 'licensed readings' 'informed readings' creative writing |
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