Literary framework for European teachers

Teaching Literature in Europe

This website is designed for teachers of literature and other interested parties involved in teaching literature to adolescents in secondary education (12 to 18 years old) in Europe.

The Literary Framework sets out levels of literary development in the context of secondary education. It comprises:

• overviews with levels of the literary competence of students
• overviews of the characteristics of books suitable for certain reading levels
• lists of books arranged by level
• overviews of didactic interventions in the zone of proximal development that stimulate the literary development of students

The Literary Framework is based on research on the shared pedagogical content knowledge of 4.700 teachers from the six countries involved in this European project (2009-2012).

Countries that want to replicate the developmental research and publish their framework on this site are invited to contact Theo Witte, University of Groningen (Netherlands).

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