A Crossover Show with the Just One More Book Podcast on “Tudley Didn’t Know and Interpretive Stances” _Show 29
On this show
“Tudley Didn’t Know” as a focus for CLIP and Just One More Book (JOMB).
Click here to pop over to Andrea and Mark’s Just One More Book discussion regarding Tudley, and then share your thoughts on the subject by posting comments on either of our sites.
Books Mentioned:
Tudley Didn’t Know
Thomas and the Library Lady
Podcasts and Websites Mentioned:
Just One More Book
Andycast Podcast
A Beaded Embrace
Thanks To:
Andrea and Mark, Jerry Harste, Carol Felderman, Charlotte Gonzalez
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Andy Bilodeau
Wecome to show 29 of the CLIP Podcast. This week, I’m breaking clip tradition by releasing two shows. Today’s show is the second in what I hope to be many crossover shows between CLIP and Just One More Book, a podcast on children’s books done by Andrea and Mark in their favorite coffee shop in Ottawa. As most of you know Just One More book is one of the podcasts on my must listen list. Over the past six months we’ve created through the air waves a very enjoyable, supportive, and respectful relationship which I value very much.
Tomorrow I’ll be releasing part 2 of my conversation with Heather Jopling.
For today’s show what Andrea, Mark, and I have done is deliberately choose the same text, Tudley Didn’t Know , a picture book by John Himmelman, from which to build an episode on a show we have both released today! I love that we are able to take advantage of podcasting as a tool for transcending space and bringing to you complimentary perspectives and discussions , from two different shows, on the same text! You can access Just One More Book at www.justonemorebook.com where you will hear Andrea and Mark talk about Tudley.
A friend and colleague, Jerry Harste notes, when we read something, we usually have an initial response or reaction, which may change if we have to defend our response, if we talk to someone with a different interpretation, or if we engage in conversation. He further asserts that to be critically literate we need to know about alternate ways of responding as well as know how our response positions us in the world. He continues by saying too often in the past, we have prepared readers without this kind of agency. In response to this problem he adapted a strategy from David Bleich on supporting readers to develop the habits of mind to seek out multiple (and even conflicting versions) of every story they hear and to “take agency” in fashioning those responses to reflect how they want to position themselves as well as how they wish others to see them in the world.
For this crossover show what I decided to do with the help of three colleagues, Jerry Harste from Indiana, Carol Felderman from Virginia and Charlotte Gonzalez also from Virginia, is to offer you ways of thinking about Tudley from different interpretive stances.
In a nutshell, Tudley is a playful book about a young turtle who doesn’t realize there are things that he probably shouldn’t be able to do as a turtle, such as fly, until someone or something else calls attention to it.
The first perspective on Tudley represents an aesthetic stance. Aesthetic responses deal with the emotional experience of reading.
Here is an example of an intertextual perspective. In this stance readers make sense of the text in terms of other texts.
From a philosophical stance we discussed the notion of universal truths or messages.
The final stance represented in our conversation is a critical perspective, which helps us see the big issues that lie just beyond the text.
Thank Yous
Before I go I want to say thank you to the following people for contributing to the show, participating in the show, commenting on the show or contacting me regarding the show; Carol Felderman and her second graders at Bailey’s Elementary School, Erin, Anna Sumida, Heather Jopling, Andy of the Andycast, Charlotte, Jerry Harste, Jan, and Vickie from a Beaded Embrace. Special thanks to Andrea and Mark of Just One More Book for doing another crossover show with me and for helping to keep my podcasting life very satisfying and enjoyable. Until next time…
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The idea of crossover to discuss the book is a very good one. Thanks to technology, Dr. Vivian and her colleagues were able to successfully communicate and I am able to listen and respond. It is a great opportunity to be able to listen to different professionals’ view about the same book. Well, the book is charming, enjoyable and it is also challenging. For a kid to realize that a turtle can do things it doesn’t do normally is a very amusing thing. I agree that social groups can have a great effect. It is important for kids to expand their imaginations and to be creative. It is also excellent to be capable of making out unusual observation about things (in this case a turtle trying to fly). We need more books that can challenge our kids’ imagination and test their knowledge to things. Kids should know what they can do and what they can’t. It is crucial that kids know and appreciate their limitations at the same time be innovative and think outside the box. I enjoyed this intersect t presentation.