Literary learning

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In German didactics, literary learning is one of the objectives of literary teaching.

The German didactic specialist Kaspar H. Spinner published in 2006 in the context of the discussion about educational standards in an issue of the professional journal Praxis Deutsch elf aspects of literary learning (2006), which triggered a broad didactic discussion about what constitutes literary learning and how it should be promoted. Issue 2/2015 of the online magazine Reading Rooms offers an insight into this discussion.

In his Praxis Deutsch article, Spinner distinguishes the following 11 aspects:

  1. Develop ideas while reading and listening
  2. Bringing subjective involvement and precise perception into play
  3. Pay attention to the linguistic design
  4. Understand the perspectives of literary figures
  5. Understand narrative and dramaturgical logic of action
  6. With fictional deliberately circumvent
  7. Understand metaphorical and symbolic language
  8. Get involved in the incompleteness of the process of creating meaning
  9. Become familiar with the literary conversation
  10. Gaining prototype ideas of genres / genres
  11. Develop literary historical awareness

In a second article, which appeared in the magazine kjl & m in 2007, he concretizes the concept of literary learning for the primary level and names the following ten aspects:

  1. Literary learning includes listening
  2. Literary understanding has to do with sensory perception
  3. Literary understanding presupposes the formation of ideas
  4. Literary learning means getting involved in unfamiliar language
  5. literary understanding includes subjective participation
  6. Literary reading has to do with psychological exploration
  7. A special culture of discussion is part of literary learning
  8. Literary texts stimulate reflection on fiction and reality
  9. Understanding symbolic meanings is important for literary understanding
  10. Literary learning is also done by writing according to literary models

literature

  • Kaspar H. Spinner: literary learning. In: Praxis Deutsch, Volume 33, No. 200, 2006 pp. 6-16.
  • Kaspar H. Spinner: Literary learning in elementary school. In: kjl & m, Volume 59, No. 3, 2007, pp. 3-10.
  • Kaspar H. Spinner: Literary learning. In: Film Education Journal, Volume 2, No. 2, 2019, DOI 10.18546 / FEJ.02.2.06 , pp. 159–174. [English translation of the eleven aspects, with an introduction by Petra Anders]
  • Reading Rooms - Magazine for Literacy, Volume 2, No. 2, 2015: Eleven aspects of literary learning put to the test ( online ).

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