The Social Construction of Meaning

Download or read book The Social Construction of Meaning written by John Yandell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at secondary urban English classrooms and at what happens when students and their teachers explore literature collaboratively. By closely examining what happens in English lessons, minute by minute, it reveals how literary texts function not as a valorised heritage to be transmitted, but as a resource for the students