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SUMMARY:Object Pathos: Writing for Resonance in the English Classroom - Be
 n Rudd\, PhD student\, Faculty of Education\, Darwin College
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT:\nContemporary education scholarship shows that Secon
 dary English places an excessive emphasis on technical brushstrokes and re
 plication. ‘Object pathos’ is proposed as one approach which contrasts
  with pedagogies built around assessment criteria. Object pathos is an ori
 ginal pedagogy which focuses on material objects that change or appear in 
 new contexts as sources of narrative meaning. This research uses Hartmut R
 osa’s concept of resonance to investigate how narrative approaches to En
 glish might support the study of composition and textual meaning in ways t
 hat encourage relationality\, personal response and mitigate learner alien
 ation. This theoretical framework also brings together the literary ideas 
 of Virginia Woolf\, George Saunders\, and Ursula K. Le Guin\; the material
 ities of John Dewey\, Bill Brown and Steven Connor\; and the narrative the
 ories of Paul Ricœur and Viktor Shklovsky. This presentation will report 
 the findings of the Ideas in Things action research study\, which involved
  trialling a large set of object pathos resources with teachers across thr
 ee schools in England.\n \nBIOGRAPHY:\nBenjamin Rudd is a PhD student at t
 he Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. His research focus
 es on how ideas from narrative theory and practising writers can be applie
 d to form classroom experiences that elicit personal response and encourag
 e creative agency. He has taught English\, music\, and drama at Secondary 
 level in England and the United States. He engages more widely with creati
 ve writing through the University of Cambridge’s BBC Partnership Shadowi
 ng Scheme.
LOCATION:Richard King room\, Darwin College
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