tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246220242273461143.post4730434667008108777..comments2024-03-15T12:14:33.129+00:00Comments on Biblibio: "Classics versus YA" is a false debateMeytal Radzinskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15805413335735169073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246220242273461143.post-72286193776963287472020-12-04T13:06:07.467+00:002020-12-04T13:06:07.467+00:00Oh, ABSOLUTELY. I think there needs to be a lot mo...Oh, ABSOLUTELY. I think there needs to be a lot more <i>discussion</i> with students/kids (at least from, like, age 13+) about the meta-value of certain texts and really just be more forthcoming with what you're teaching. And similarly, I often think about when students complain about being forced to interpret [x] in a text and how it's "silly" for them to need to assume that detail from the writing, except... the problem isn't the extrapolation or interpretation, the problem is the way it's taught as something rigid without adequate <i>explanation</i> of why the teacher/academics reached those conclusions. Kids are able to have these conversations, I don't understand why they aren't an explicit part of the curriculum.Meytal Radzinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805413335735169073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1246220242273461143.post-24229937474809478342020-12-04T12:45:33.895+00:002020-12-04T12:45:33.895+00:00Yes, yes, yes, to all of this. And I would add tha...Yes, yes, yes, to all of this. And I would add that it would help so much if teachers more consistently A, explained why they had chosen a given text to read in class and what they were hoping the students would get out of it, and B, talked about some of the contexts around the book and the conversations (some of them bigoted) the book was contributing to in its time, and what assumptions it wasn't even examining. Because like, a book can be powerful and great and worth reading in some ways but also have some very blinkered views in other ways, and it's okay to discuss the second thing as well as the first.Jenny @ Reading the Endhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08795408347296150988noreply@blogger.com