ABSTRACT

This essay explores the creativity and learning that can take place when students are given the opportunity to go beyond the GCSE set poems and create their own poetry anthologies. I argue that in the process of creating a poetry anthology, students are encouraged to engage on a deeper and more personal level with poetry. I suggest that when students are given the time, space, and autonomy to create their own anthologies, they not only develop the critical and creative writing skills required for their examinations, but are also more readily able to explore and express their lived experiences. I consider how such a project invites students to develop their writing and shape their identities through drawing on experiences, views and attitudes often overlooked in an increasingly exam-pressurised classroom. I closely examine two students’ anthologies, arguing for the need to affirm and advance students’ writing through a co-operative creativity.

摘要

本文探讨了当学生有机会超越 GCSE 诗集并创作自己的诗歌选集时，可以发生的创造力和学习。我认为，在创作诗歌选集的过程中，鼓励学生在更深、更个人的层面上参与诗歌。我建议，当学生有时间、空间和自主权来创作自己的选集时，他们不仅可以培养考试所需的批判性和创造性的写作技巧，而且更容易探索和表达他们的生活经历。我考虑这样一个项目如何邀请学生通过借鉴在考试压力越来越大的课堂中经常被忽视的经验、观点和态度来发展他们的写作并塑造他们的身份。我仔细检查了两个学生的选集，