Peter Hollindale Explained

Peter Hollindale (born 1936) is an educationalist and literary critic. He taught at Derwent College, York from 1965 to 1999.^[1]

Three levels of ideology

Hollindale's most renowned theory was that of the three levels of ideology in a text, which pertained to all four modern reading approaches (author-centred, reader-centred, text-centred, world-view-centred).

The levels are as follows:

1. The author's profound message in a text
2. The unexamined assumptions of the author
3. The ideologies of the author's world

References

Hollindale, Peter (1998) Ideology and The Children's Book, Thimble Press: Woodchester, UK

Notes and References

1. Web site: M Block - Derwent College, the University of York . 2014-10-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150912031211/http://www.york.ac.uk/colleges/derwent/accommodation/summary/m-block/ . 2015-09-12 .