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From: Susan Swords Steffen <susanss>
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 13:20:10 -0600
I used The Three Pigs with a somewhat different audience recently.
During January (we have a one month experimental type term each year) , a colleague frorm the English department and I taught a course called Reading About Reading: Literary Theory and Children's Literature which taught some literary theory to elementary education majors using children's texts. Anyway, we used The Three Pigs to discuss post-structuralism and deconstruction. Not only did they laugh heartily as they watched the pigs deconstruct and take over the text, but they also really "got" the theory. And it was a great treat for them when the book won the Caldecott Award the day after we discussed the book in class. Made me look good too!
Susan Swords Steffen Elmhurst College
Received on Sat 02 Feb 2002 01:20:10 PM CST
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 13:20:10 -0600
I used The Three Pigs with a somewhat different audience recently.
During January (we have a one month experimental type term each year) , a colleague frorm the English department and I taught a course called Reading About Reading: Literary Theory and Children's Literature which taught some literary theory to elementary education majors using children's texts. Anyway, we used The Three Pigs to discuss post-structuralism and deconstruction. Not only did they laugh heartily as they watched the pigs deconstruct and take over the text, but they also really "got" the theory. And it was a great treat for them when the book won the Caldecott Award the day after we discussed the book in class. Made me look good too!
Susan Swords Steffen Elmhurst College
Received on Sat 02 Feb 2002 01:20:10 PM CST
