Category: Metacognition
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We teach students to search poetry for meaning, as though every poem contains a hidden answer waiting to be uncovered. But what if that assumption is wrong? In War Photographer, Carol Ann Duffy presents us with a figure caught between professionalism and guilt, compassion and detachment, witness and participant. Yet the closer we examine the…
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What if every story is really the same story? A recent lesson began with a challenge to a common assumption in English teaching: that students learn Literature by studying individual texts. Instead, students were introduced to the idea of literary genealogy—the concept that all stories belong to the same enduring tradition and share a common…
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Words don’t have meanings, they get meanings. Structuralism is a difficult and abstract concept to understand, but there’s a meme that absolutely nails this.
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The way we perceive Literature is an important gatekeeper to analysing Literature. Metacognition is an important step that departments rarely formalise into actual lessons. But it can be quite simple, and a couple of jokes can really elevate the plinth from which we stand and view the field.
