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Direct linkLena Wimmer; Gregory Currie; Stacie Friend; Heather J Ferguson – Creativity Research Journal, 2024
Although philosophers have long claimed that reading fiction has the potential to improve imaginative capacities, empirical evidence on this topic is limited. We report an experiment that aims to conceptually replicate and extend previous work by Djikic and colleagues by testing whether reading literary fiction reduces the need for closure, and by…
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Fiction, Reading, Imagination
Nicola K. Currie; Katherine Wilkinson; Sarah McGeown – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The relationship between reading and well-being is gaining increasing interest among those working in research, policy and practice, as we seek to better understand if, and how, reading books supports wellbeing. To date, the majority of research has focused on children and young people, neglecting to consider the well-being benefits that reading…
Descriptors: Well Being, Reading Habits, Older Adults, Fiction
Sophie A. Booton; Prerna Menon; Maria Kyriacou; Victoria A. Murphy – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
While there is some evidence of a gap in English writing achievement between children with English as an additional language (EAL) compared to their monolingual English-speaking (EL1) peers, the source of this gap remains unclear. This study examines whether writing presents a specific challenge for children with EAL beyond their oral language and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
Download full textBozkurt, Aras; Xiao, Junhong; Lambert, Sarah; Pazurek, Angelica; Crompton, Helen; Koseoglu, Suzan; Farrow, Robert; Bond, Melissa; Nerantzi, Chrissi; Honeychurch, Sarah; Bali, Maha; Dron, Jon; Mir, Kamran; Stewart, Bonnie; Costello, Eamon; Mason, Jon; Stracke, Christian M.; Romero-Hall, Enilda; Koutropoulos, Apostolos; Toquero, Cathy Mae; Singh, Lenandlar; Tlili, Ahmed; Lee, Kyungmee; Nichols, Mark; Ossiannilsson, Ebba; Brown, Mark; Irvine, Valerie; Raffaghelli, Juliana Elisa; Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Farrell, Orna; Adam, Taskeen; Thong, Ying Li; Sani-Bozkurt, Sunagul; Sharma, Ramesh C.; Hrastinski, Stefan; Jandric, Petar – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adopting a speculative methodology. Speculative future narratives with a specific focus on educational contexts are…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Affordances, Teacher Role
Jarvis, Christine – Studies in Continuing Education, 2020
This article argues that fiction can operate as a critical feminist curriculum and discusses how this manifests itself in terms of content and teaching methodologies. It uses a close reading of Naomi Alderman's dystopian fiction "The Power" (2016) to explore this, complemented by an analysis of a discussion between Alderman and readers…
Descriptors: Novels, Fiction, Feminism, Books
Hanratty, Brian – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
While "Rebecca" is not currently a set text for A-Level English Literature, this paper argues that the novel's multi-faceted richness would justify its inclusion in any list of recommended texts. Divided into four interconnected parts, the paper offers, firstly, some approaches to the reading and teaching of fiction, generally. The…
Descriptors: English Literature, English Instruction, Novels, Fiction
Pickard-Smith, Kelly – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2021
This paper argues that an Arts-Based Research (ABR) methodology, drawing on the Ethnofiction work of filmmaker Jean Rouch, can facilitate new ways of researching mathematics, science and education more generally by: (i) making past learning experiences more accessible and (ii) considering the affective engagement of the audience as interrogator of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Students, Graduate Students, Art
Reynolds, Kimberley – Children's Literature in Education, 2019
In Britain, children's literature studies emerged in the late 1960s, largely through the activities of what is now the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter. This article uses the Catherine Storr archive to revisit some of the contexts and concerns of those early days, many of which continue to have relevance. Storr was involved…
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Archives, Fear
Tekgül, Duygu – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
This study seeks to analyze book group discussions on translated fiction in terms of micro public spheres. The paper explores the potentials of this perspective based on ethnographic data collected through participant observation with reading groups located across Britain. The discussion demonstrates the public sphere in operation beyond the…
Descriptors: Fiction, Clubs, Books, Group Discussion
Parker, Jonathan; Farmer, Harry – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
This article describes a narrative development project undertaken by students on a History of Social Welfare module at a British university. Students were asked to choose a character, setting and story from a range of scenarios and time periods that reflected many of the key areas covered in lecture and seminar classes. The narrative was not…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Social Services, Narration, Fiction
Chilton, Helen – Deafness & Education International, 2017
Recent years have seen a significant interest in Theory of Mind (ToM), the specific groups in which it may be restricted and the opportunities which might enhance or suppress development. Previous studies have identified gaps in the literature concerning ideas for intervention and strategies which may augment the development of ToM skills.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Theory of Mind, Fiction, Picture Books
Hanratty, Brian – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
This paper has two complementary objectives. After providing some theoretical perspectives on fiction generally, and on the teaching of fiction more specifically, it firstly evaluates, from a literary-critical perspective, a reasonably representative selection of the portrayal of teachers and teaching in some twentieth-century Anglo-Irish fiction…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, English Literature
Huang, Wen-Ding; Morrissey, Paul; Chan, Pao-Jing – Higher Education Studies, 2022
The purposes of this paper are to investigate Taiwanese undergraduate students' responses to a selected fictional text, and to propose a critical intercultural pedagogical approach of reading global literature in the EFL educational context based on the insights from the research findings. The authors first critically analysed Xiaolu Guo's third…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Satchwell, Candice – Literacy, 2019
How an author communicates with a reader is a central consideration in the critical examination of any text. When considering the communication of ideas from young people whose voices are seldom heard, the journey from author to audience has particular significance. The construction of children and young people as 'authors' is important,…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Students with Disabilities, Authors, Learning Problems
Dobson, Tom; Stephenson, Lisa; De Arede, Ana – English in Education, 2021
Literary criticism of children's literature asserts a one-directional view of power with the adult writer constructing the child reader. Using "aetonormativity"-- adult perceptions of normality -- this paper explores what happens when children co-construct publishable fiction. Our analysis of drama and creative writing workshops shows…
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Childrens Literature, Writing for Publication, Creative Writing
