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The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction
This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly those forged by the transformative educational policymaking of the interwar period.

Charting the educational policy and provision of the era, and referring to works by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edmund Crispin and others, the book explores the educational capacity and agency of literary detectives; the learning spaces of the genre; and the kinds of knowledge that are made available to inquirers both inside and outside the text. It is argued that the genre explores a range of contemporaneous propositions on the balance between academic curriculum and practicum, length of school life, and the value of lifelong learning.  The book’s closing chapter considers the continuing pedagogic value for contemporary classrooms of engaging with the genre as a rich discursive and imaginative space for exploring educational ideas.

Framing Golden Age detective fiction as a genre profoundly concerned with learning, this book will be highly relevant reading for academics, postgraduate students, and scholars involved in the fields of English language arts, 20th century literature, and the theories of learning more broadly. Those interested in detective fiction and interdisciplinary literary studies will also find the volume of interest.

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The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction
This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly those forged by the transformative educational policymaking of the interwar period.

Charting the educational policy and provision of the era, and referring to works by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edmund Crispin and others, the book explores the educational capacity and agency of literary detectives; the learning spaces of the genre; and the kinds of knowledge that are made available to inquirers both inside and outside the text. It is argued that the genre explores a range of contemporaneous propositions on the balance between academic curriculum and practicum, length of school life, and the value of lifelong learning.  The book’s closing chapter considers the continuing pedagogic value for contemporary classrooms of engaging with the genre as a rich discursive and imaginative space for exploring educational ideas.

Framing Golden Age detective fiction as a genre profoundly concerned with learning, this book will be highly relevant reading for academics, postgraduate students, and scholars involved in the fields of English language arts, 20th century literature, and the theories of learning more broadly. Those interested in detective fiction and interdisciplinary literary studies will also find the volume of interest.

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The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction

The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction

by Roger Dalrymple, Andrew Green
The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction
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The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction

The Idea of Education in Golden Age Detective Fiction

by Roger Dalrymple, Andrew Green

Overview

This book presents an exploration of how Golden Age detective fiction encounters educational ideas, particularly those forged by the transformative educational policymaking of the interwar period.

Charting the educational policy and provision of the era, and referring to works by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edmund Crispin and others, the book explores the educational capacity and agency of literary detectives; the learning spaces of the genre; and the kinds of knowledge that are made available to inquirers both inside and outside the text. It is argued that the genre explores a range of contemporaneous propositions on the balance between academic curriculum and practicum, length of school life, and the value of lifelong learning.  The book’s closing chapter considers the continuing pedagogic value for contemporary classrooms of engaging with the genre as a rich discursive and imaginative space for exploring educational ideas.

Framing Golden Age detective fiction as a genre profoundly concerned with learning, this book will be highly relevant reading for academics, postgraduate students, and scholars involved in the fields of English language arts, 20th century literature, and the theories of learning more broadly. Those interested in detective fiction and interdisciplinary literary studies will also find the volume of interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367725037
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/05/2024
Series: Literature and Education
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Roger Dalrymple is Professor of Practice in Lifelong Learning at the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow in Education at Regent’s Park College Oxford, UK.

Andrew Green is Senior Lecturer in English Education and Deputy Director of the Global Lives Research Centre at Brunel University London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction  1.  Learning in the Age of Sleuthing  2.  Detective as learner and teacher  3.  The learning spaces of Golden Age Detective Fiction  4.  The limits of detective learning  5.. Detective fiction in education                                  

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