School Librarians of the 21st Century "Building partnerships for learning..." |
Literature: appreciation and meaning |
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Dr.
Kay Vandergrift, Rutgers
Professor and authority on literature for children and young adults states: |
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Literature is written to be experienced, enjoyed, appreciated, and loved. Engagement is necessary to the creation of meaning. |
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Each
reader, in the process of experiencing a literary work, both brings meaning to and takes meaning from that work. |
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Meaning
made from having experienced a work is personal and idiosyncratic and is based on all that the reader has known and experienced outside that work |
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Learn
about Professor Vandergrift,
two of the courses she created,
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