Teaching Literature

Text and Dialogue in the English Classroom

Ben Knights

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

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.

Table of contents

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