Date: Tuesday October 21 at 9am PDT
Guest Speaker: Peter Smagorinsky, Distinguished Research Professor of English Education, University of Georgia at Athens.
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98564124237
Meeting ID: 985 6412 4237
Passcode: Vygotsky
Summary: Peter Smagorinsky revisits his 1995 study of how high school students’ understanding of literary characters was enhanced through role play. When Peter conducted this study, translations of Vygotsky writings on imagination, play, and creativity were not widely available. Now, thirty years later, with an expanded understanding of Vygotsky’s theory, the implications of this study become even more salient.
Reading: Smagorinsky, P., & Coppock, J. (1995). The reader, the text, the context: An exploration of a choreographed response to literature. Journal of Reading Behavior, 27, 271-298. https://doi.org/10.1080/108629695095478 [doi.org] Available at http://www.petersmagorinsky.net/About/PDF/JLR/JRB1995.pdf [petersmagorinsky.net]