The Author-Driven Classroom: How Secondary ELA Teachers Can Teach Literature Through Writers’ Lives and Choices
Autor Jennifer Lockhart-McHughen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 feb 2027
The Author-Driven Classroom presents a comprehensive framework for author-centered literary instruction in secondary English language arts. Rather than treating authors as background information or reducing literary study to biography, the book argues that authors function as human, historical, and creative presences whose lives, identities, and craft choices can deepen students’ literary reasoning. Drawing on classroom experience, qualitative research, sociocultural theory, reader-response scholarship, and disciplinary literacy, the book introduces the Author Research Cycle (ARC), a flexible framework for transforming author knowledge into sustained literary inquiry. Through practical classroom examples, reflection prompts, and instructional strategies, readers learn how biography, historical context, literary craft, and textual analysis can work together to foster curiosity, empathy, critical thinking, and close reading.
Written for English teachers, teacher candidates, teacher educators, instructional coaches, and curriculum leaders, The Author-Driven Classroom offers a humane and practical vision of literature instruction that restores authors to the center of meaningful literary study.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781041312017
ISBN-10: 1041312016
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1041312016
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
Part I. Reclaiming the Author in Literary Study 1. Passion, Craft, and the Literary Author 2. The Author as Human Presence in Literary Interpretation 3. From Background Knowledge to Author-Driven Inquiry Part II. Author-Centered Classroom Practice 4. Biography as Inquiry: Reading the Author Without Reducing the Text 5. Craft as Authorial Design: Building Symbolic Worlds 6. Identity, History, and Power in Author-Centered Instruction 7. Students as Authors Part III. Building an Author-Driven Curriculum 8. Teachers as Makers 9. The Canon, Standards, and Literary Lineages 10. From Author Research Cycles to Units of Study 11. Keeping Literature Human References Literary References Appendix A: Twenty Questions for Author-Centered Inquiry Appendix B: Sample Author Research Cycles Appendix C: Illustrative Literary Lineages
Recenzii
“Over the last decades there has been controversy over the role of authors in the production and teaching of literary texts. After all, interpretation rests with readers who may well know nothing about the author. The Author-Centered Classroom resolves these controversies, both practically and theoretically, in a brilliant and insightful way.”
- James Paul Gee, Regents Professor, Arizona State University
“For decades, the teaching of literature has been shaped by disciplinary traditions that separate literary works from the people who made them, frustrating students’ natural desire to know more about the authors whose writing moves them. The Author-Driven Classroom is a powerful antidote to this systemic gap. In it, Jennifer Lockhart-McHugh provides an eloquent and inspiring guide to integrating authorship with the study of history and the literary arts.”
- John Farrell, Emeritus, Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College
“Early in the film Dead Poets Society, the teacher played by Robin Williams has his students rip out the stultifying textbook preface of J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. Jennifer Lockhart-McHugh, in The Author-Driven Classroom, empowers real-life classroom teachers to perform a similarly liberating act, by offering the tools to implement a consistent, theoretically supportable, inductive framework for teaching the author in relation to the text, with revivified reading as the deliverable, and with students as the ultimate beneficiaries.”
- H. L. Hix, Professor, University of Wyoming; Author
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“In The Author-Driven Classroom, Jennifer Lockhart-McHugh offers a powerful argument for bringing authors back into literary education—not by brandishing authorial intention as a way to close off the text with a single interpretive key, but by calling on an author’s background, experiences, desires, and artistic choices to open the text up to a variety of readings. Her approach does not simply nourish students’ curiosity; it also expands the human dimension of students’ reading as they come to share lives different from their own, even as they sharpen their understanding and appreciation of literary craft. A revelatory book.
- Peter J. Rabinowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus, Hamilton College
- James Paul Gee, Regents Professor, Arizona State University
“For decades, the teaching of literature has been shaped by disciplinary traditions that separate literary works from the people who made them, frustrating students’ natural desire to know more about the authors whose writing moves them. The Author-Driven Classroom is a powerful antidote to this systemic gap. In it, Jennifer Lockhart-McHugh provides an eloquent and inspiring guide to integrating authorship with the study of history and the literary arts.”
- John Farrell, Emeritus, Waldo W. Neikirk Professor of Literature at Claremont McKenna College
“Early in the film Dead Poets Society, the teacher played by Robin Williams has his students rip out the stultifying textbook preface of J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. Jennifer Lockhart-McHugh, in The Author-Driven Classroom, empowers real-life classroom teachers to perform a similarly liberating act, by offering the tools to implement a consistent, theoretically supportable, inductive framework for teaching the author in relation to the text, with revivified reading as the deliverable, and with students as the ultimate beneficiaries.”
- H. L. Hix, Professor, University of Wyoming; Author
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“In The Author-Driven Classroom, Jennifer Lockhart-McHugh offers a powerful argument for bringing authors back into literary education—not by brandishing authorial intention as a way to close off the text with a single interpretive key, but by calling on an author’s background, experiences, desires, and artistic choices to open the text up to a variety of readings. Her approach does not simply nourish students’ curiosity; it also expands the human dimension of students’ reading as they come to share lives different from their own, even as they sharpen their understanding and appreciation of literary craft. A revelatory book.
- Peter J. Rabinowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus, Hamilton College
Notă biografică
Jennifer Lockhart-McHugh is a teacher, scholar, and author with more than twenty-five years of experience teaching English Language Arts in New Jersey’s public schools, including over fifteen years in Special Education inclusion classrooms.
Descriere
Looking for a new way to teach literature in your ELA classroom that includes the author’s lives and choices? Written for English teachers, teacher candidates, teacher educators, instructional coaches, and curriculum leaders, this book offers a practical vision of literature instruction that restores authors to the center of literary study.