A Therapeutic Approach to Teaching Poetry [electronic resource] : Individual Development, Psychology, and Social Reparation /
Williams, T.author.
Explains how the study of poetry, by providing experiences similar to those produced by poetry therapy, can help students discover themselves and develop their potential to effect change in the world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The therapeutic value of poetry -- Gaining awareness and overcoming defenses -- (Neuro) psychoanalytic regression and integration -- The teacher as (whole, useful, permanent) object -- The poem as (self-, transformational, transitional, reparative) object -- A poetry therapy model for the classroom -- Cultivating empathy: Wordsworth's lyrical ballads -- A reparative text: Tennyson's In memoriam -- Integrating experience: Morris's The defence of Guenevere and other poems -- Desire and reparation: Rossetti's Goblin market and other poems.
Explains how the study of poetry, by providing experiences similar to those produced by poetry therapy, can help students discover themselves and develop their potential to effect change in the world.
Teaching.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Poetry.
Educational psychology.
Education-Psychology.
Education-Philosophy.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
Philosophy of Education.
Poetry and Poetics.
Educational Psychology.
Educational Philosophy.