Poetry for Education

About the Book

This book is developed with readers and teachers in mind. Poem lovers can read it purely for pleasure. Teachers can treat it as classroom resources that support student discussion. The content of the book would be suited for various levels of education, ranging from junior secondary to undergraduate university. The discipline might include social studies, intercultural studies, interpersonal communication, personal development, educational psychology, literacy practice, language pedagogy, and teacher training. The poem-based activities aim to create informal exchange of perspectives, classroom debate, individual presentations, essay ideas, and creative writing.

About the Author

Dat Bao lectures in Teacher Education at Monash University, Australia. He is also an illustration artist and a member of the Creative Writing Group (http://thecreativitygroup.weebly.com/). His poetry has been published in anthologies in the UK, Malaysia, and Nepal; and have been used as classroom teaching resources around the world. Dat Bao has given talks related to learning, teaching, teacher, and education in the UK, US, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, China, Singapore, and Australia. He is the author of a research book entitled Understanding Silence and Reticence (Bloomsbury, London, 2015). In 2014, Dat was nominated for the Vice-Chancellor’s Excellent Teaching Award in Monash University.