Teaching Literature
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Teaching Literature

Text and Dialogue in the English Classroom

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Teaching Literature

Text and Dialogue in the English Classroom

About this book

This book comprises reflections by experienced scholar teachers on the principles and practice of higher education English teaching. In approaching the subject from different angles it aims to spark insights and to foster imaginative teaching. In the era of audit, and the Teaching Excellence Framework it invites teachers to return to the sources of their own teaching knowledge. The shift from a student-centred to a research-centred paradigm has particular implications for a discipline which prides itself on its teaching, and has always had teaching and dialogue at its heart. One which also talks across the tertiary / secondary border to the cognate (though different) subject called 'English' in school. The argument which informs this book, and which is developed in the individual chapters, is that the future of the subject relies not alone upon fostering communities of 'research excellence', but on re-awakening and reviving its pedagogic traditions.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781137311085
eBook ISBN
9781137311108
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Professional Development
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Series Editor’s Preface
  2. Contents
  3. About the Editor
  4. List of Tables
  5. Chapter 1 Introduction: Teaching? Literature?
  6. Chapter 2 Contrasts: Teaching English in British and American Universities
  7. Chapter 3 Transition and Discontinuity: Pitfalls and Opportunities in the Move to University English Universities
  8. Chapter 4 The Shame of Teaching (English)
  9. Chapter 5 Transition into the Profession: Accuracy, Sincerity and ‘Disciplinary Consciousness’
  10. Chapter 6 ‘Getting in Conversation’: Teaching African American Literature and Training Critical Thinkers
  11. Chapter 7 Beyond the Essay? Assessment and English Literature
  12. Chapter 8 Critical or Creative? Teaching Crossover Writing in English Studies
  13. Chapter 9 Teaching ‘Literature+’: Digital Humanities Hybrid Courses in the Era of MOOCs
  14. Chapter 10 Teaching Stylistics: Foregrounding in E.E. Cummings
  15. Chapter 11 Teaching Historically: Some Limits to Historicist Teaching
  16. Chapter 12 Towards an Unprecedented Ecocritical Pedagogy
  17. Chapter 13 Opening up the Seminar: Children’s Literature, a Case Study
  18. Index