Response is a word that reminds the teacher that the experience of art is a thing of our making, an activity in which we are our own inter-pretative artist D. W. Harding
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Michael Benton has taught in secondary schools and now lectures in the Education Department of Southampton University. He is currently working on a doctoral thesis concerned with the creative processes of both writing and reading.
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Benton, M. Children's responses to stories. Child Lit Educ 10, 68–85 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01145701
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