The Protagonist as a Learner, and the Author as a Teacher in Jack Lasenby's Novel, "The Lake"

Autor/in	van Rij, Vivien
Titel	The Protagonist as a Learner, and the Author as a Teacher in Jack Lasenby's Novel, "The Lake"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 49 (2018) 3, S.264-281 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-016-9298-y
Schlagwörter	Authors; Adolescent Literature; Progressive Education; Experiential Learning; Imagination; Alienation; Child Abuse; Child Neglect; Fiction; Biblical Literature; Ethnic Groups; Pacific Islanders; Family Relationship; Foreign Countries; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Author; Autor; Autorin; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Reformpädagogik; Progressive Erziehung; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Entfremdung; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Kindesvernachlässigung; Fiktion; Bibel; Ethnie; Pacific Rim; Inhabitant; People; Pazifischer Raum; Bewohner; Ausland; Neuseeland
Abstract	The young adult novels of multi award-winning New Zealand writer, Jack Lasenby, are strongly influenced by his careers as a primary school teacher and deer-culler, and love of story. In his first novel, "The Lake," Lasenby depicts Ruth, the protagonist, as a learner who seeks knowledge in much the same way that he, the author-teacher, crafts his work. Incorporating features of John Dewey's Progressive Education system into the novel, Lasenby emphasises the interrelatedness of diverse characters, and of society, nature, and myth, the notion of a wholeness comprising integrated parts, and the possibility of a truth gained through experiential learning and the imagination. Alienated, oppressed, and lonely, Ruth has experienced parental neglect and abuse, and escapes from the social world to a recognisable fictional wilderness based on the New Zealand landscape of Lasenby's deer-culling days. At the same time she sees in society and the landscape images that represent herself and her dysfunctional family, and comes painfully to terms with these. Lasenby's allusions to Maori and Biblical myth add to the multiple perspectives that Ruth (and the implied reader) must resolve in order to arrive at some truth. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01