Article,
PLACE-BASED READING. LITERATURE DIDACTICS OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Affiliations
- [1] Aarhus Univ, Aarhus, Denmark [NORA names: AU Aarhus University; University; Denmark; Europe, EU; Nordic; OECD];
- [2] VIA Univ Coll, Ceresbyen 24, DK-800 Aarhus, Denmark [NORA names: VIA University College; College; Denmark; Europe, EU; Nordic; OECD]
Abstract
This article presents a theoretically based model for place-based reading as a specific method for teaching literature outside the classroom. The model is designed for lower secondary school students (ages 13- 16). With its four didactic stages, place-based reading is supposed to prompt and scaffold the students' exploratory, bidirectional text-place attention. The place-based reading model's theoretical foundations are presented by merging three broad academic fields: philosophies of place, literary topographies, and education outside the classroom (Danish: udeskole). The article is intended to contribute to a discussion of education that addresses how exploratory literature teaching outside the classroom could reveal to students that literature and the world surrounding them are related by concretizing the time element.