Teaching Literature In Times Of Crisis

Author : Sofia Ahlberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000396225

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Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis looks at the range of different crises currently affecting students – from climate change and systemic racism, to the global pandemic. Addressing the impact on students’ ability and motivation to learn as well as their emotional wellbeing, this volume guides teachers toward strategies for introducing both canonical and contemporary literature in ways that demonstrate the future relevance of sophisticated and targeted literacy skills. These reading practices are invaluable for framing and critically examining the challenges associated with crisis in order to help cope with grief and as a means to impart the skills needed to deal with crisis, such as adaptability, flexibility, resilience, and resistance. Providing necessary background theory, alongside practical case studies, the book addresses: Reading practices for demonstrating how literature explores ethical issues in specific and concrete rather than abstract terms Making connections between disparate phenomena, and how literature mobilises affect in individual and collective human lives Supporting teachers in considering new, imaginative ways students can learn from literary content and form in online or remote learning environments as well as face to face Combining close and distant reading with creative and hands-on strategies, presenting the principles of a transitional pedagogy for a world in flux. This book introduces teachers to methods for reading and studying literature with the aim of strengthening and promoting resilience and resourcefulness in and out of the literature classroom and empower students as global citizens with local roles to play.

Author : Mich Yonah Nyawalo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000370508

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Teaching in Times of Crisis by Mich Yonah Nyawalo Pdf

Teaching in Times of Crisis explores how comparative methods, which are instrumental in reading and teaching works of literature from around the world, also provide us with tools to dissect and engage the moments of crises that permeate our contemporary political realities. The book is written in the form of a series of classroom reflections—or memos—capturing the political environment preceding and proceeding the 2016 US presidential election. It examines the ways in which the ethics involved in reading comparatively can be employed by teachers and students alike to map and foster "lifelines for cultural sustainability" (to borrow the term from Djelal Kadir’s Memos from the Besieged City) that are essential for creating and maintaining a healthy multicultural society. Nyawalo achieves this through comparative readings of postcolonial films, LGBTQ texts, French slam poetry, as well as episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation, among other materials. The classroom reflections captured in each memo are shaped by the Appalachian setting in which the discussions and lessons took place. Inspired by this setting, the author develops pedagogic ethics of comparison—a method of reading comparatively—which privileges the local educational spaces in which students find themselves by mapping the contested cultural politics of Appalachian realities onto a world literature curriculum.

Author : Debra J. Rosenthal
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603296366

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Teaching the Literature of Climate Change by Debra J. Rosenthal Pdf

Over the past several decades, writers such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Octavia E. Butler, and Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner have explored climate change through literature, reflecting current anxieties about humans' impact on the planet. Emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinarity, this volume embraces literature as a means to cultivate students' understanding of the ongoing climate crisis, ethics in times of disaster, and the intrinsic intersectionality of environmental issues. Contributors discuss speculative climate futures, the Anthropocene, postcolonialism, climate anxiety, and the usefulness of storytelling in engaging with catastrophe. The essays offer approaches to teaching interdisciplinary and cross-listed courses, including strategies for team-teaching across disciplines and for building connections between humanities majors and STEM majors. The volume concludes with essays that explore ways to address grief and to contemplate a hopeful future in the face of apocalyptic predictions.

Author : Mich Yonah Nyawalo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 0367626756

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Teaching in Times of Crisis by Mich Yonah Nyawalo Pdf

Teaching in Times of Crisis explores how comparative methods, which are instrumental in reading and teaching works of literature from around the world, also provide us with tools to dissect and engage the moments of crises that permeate our contemporary political realities. The book is written in the form of a series of classroom reflections--or memos--capturing the political environment preceding and proceeding the 2016 US presidential election. It examines the ways in which the ethics involved in reading comparatively can be employed by teachers and students alike to map and foster "lifelines for cultural sustainability" (to borrow the term from Djelal Kadir's Memos from the Besieged City) that are essential for creating and maintaining a healthy multicultural society. Nyawalo achieves this through comparative readings of postcolonial films, LGBTQ texts, French slam poetry, as well as episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation, among other materials. The classroom reflections captured in each memo are shaped by the Appalachian setting in which the discussions and lessons took place. Inspired by this setting, the author develops pedagogic ethics of comparison--a method of reading comparatively--which privileges the local educational spaces in which students find themselves by mapping the contested cultural politics of Appalachian realities onto a world literature curriculum.

Author : Cajetan Iheka
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781603295550

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Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media by Cajetan Iheka Pdf

Taking up the idea that teaching is a political act, this collection of essays reflects on recent trends in ecocriticism and the implications for pedagogy. Focusing on a diverse set of literature and media, the book also provides background on historical and theoretical issues that animate the field of postcolonial ecocriticism. The scope is broad, encompassing not only the Global South but also parts of the Global North that have been subject to environmental degradation as a result of colonial practices. Considering both the climate crisis and the crisis in the humanities, the volume navigates theoretical resources, contextual scaffolding, classroom activities, assessment, and pedagogical possibilities and challenges. Essays are grounded in environmental justice and the project to decolonize the classroom, addressing works from Africa, New Zealand, Asia, and Latin America and issues such as queer ecofeminism, disability, Latinx literary production, animal studies, interdisciplinarity, and working with environmental justice organizations.

Author : Roni Reiter-Palmon,Min Tang,Zorana Ivcevic
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889749164

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Creativity and Innovation in Times of Crisis (COVID-19) by Roni Reiter-Palmon,Min Tang,Zorana Ivcevic Pdf

Author : Beatriz Revelles-Benavente,Ana M. González Ramos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351790208

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Teaching Gender by Beatriz Revelles-Benavente,Ana M. González Ramos Pdf

This book aims at answering pressing issues such as the neo-liberalization of the university, strategical solutions to the contemporary crisis, its multiple definitions and different pedagogical manifestations across disciplines and levels of education. Inspired by bell hooks' "transgressive school" and Haraway's "responsibility", it is an attempt at creating new forms of organizational practices that consequently promote a politics of care for each other. It addresses the challenges and possibilities of teaching students about women and gender by discussing the pedagogical, theoretical and political dimensions of learning and teaching with a three-dimensional perspective. First, it revisits how we can reconfigure a feminist politics of responsibility "able to respond" or engage with contemporary crises. Secondly, it conceptualizes crisis and explains how it is transforming contemporary societies and affecting individual vulnerabilities and institutional structures. And, thirdly, it offers practical cases from different European locations (Spain, Portugal, Austria, United Kingdom and Poland, as well as the complete journey of the Feminist Caravan) in which crisis and responsibility have served to reformulate contemporary feminist pedagogies, altering curriculums, reframing institutions, and affecting the process of teaching and learning

Author : Christian Ludwig,Theresa Summer,Maria Eisenmann,Daniel Becker,Nadine Krüger
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783381114627

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Mental Health in English Language Education by Christian Ludwig,Theresa Summer,Maria Eisenmann,Daniel Becker,Nadine Krüger Pdf

Mental health has become a growing concern in today's society, with schools emerging as focal points for addressing this topic. The present volume takes this as a starting point to explore the relevance of curricula and competencies, texts and materials, (digital) culture and communication, and teacher education in the context of mental health and English language education. This, for instance, includes insights into interrelated topics such as gender, climate change, stress, and conspiracy theories. A variety of texts including multimodal novels, video games, and songs provides practical impulses for integrating mental health related topics into English lessons. As such, this volume brings together scholars from various fields who discuss the relationship between mental health issues and English as a foreign language learning from a variety of theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented perspectives.

Author : Sandra Stadler-Heer,Amos Paran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350268531

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Taking Literature and Language Learning Online by Sandra Stadler-Heer,Amos Paran Pdf

The use of literary texts in language classrooms is firmly established, but new questions arise with the transfer to remote teaching and learning. How do we teach literature online? How do learners react to being taught literature online? Will new genres emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic? Is the literary canon changing? This volume celebrates the vitality of literary and pedagogic responses to the pandemic and presents research into the phenomena observed in this evolving field. One strand of the book discusses literary outputs stimulated by the pandemic as well as past pandemics. Another strand looks at the pedagogy of engaging learners with literature online, examining learners of different ages and of different proficiency levels and different educational backgrounds, including teacher education. Finally, a third strand looks at the affordances of various technologies for teaching online and the way they interact with literature and with language learning. The contributions in this volume take literature teaching online away from static lecturing strategies, present numerous options for online teaching, and provide research-based grounding for the implementation of these pedagogies.

Author : Artur Skweres
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030867250

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Putting Crisis in Perspective by Artur Skweres Pdf

This collected book analyzes the phenomenon of crisis manifested across various historical periods. It offers unique, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the issues of crises and finds numerous applications in the fields of literature, linguistics, advertising, photography, and foreign language teaching. The collection is divided into two parts. The chapters in its first part analyze literature and language: from medieval England to cultural changes in America occurring under the influence of the transformation caused by the propagation of print culture. The incisive commentaries consider the works of culture that span not only literature but also film. They reveal how much we can learn by considering how past generations perceived reality in times of crisis. The second part of the book contains chapters, which examine texts related to contemporary crises expressed in the visual media of advertising and photography, but also in foreign language teaching. As the authors show, both ads and non-commercial, socially engaged photographs can influence the viewer in a swift and impactful manner by conveying messages of great social importance. The authors convincingly that argue both photographs and ads can be used for social benefit by visualizing even the unpleasant or shocking sides of reality. Finally, the notion of crisis experienced by students of English as a foreign language is analyzed and supplemented by research which may prove useful for researchers and practitioners alike.

Author : Robert C. Evans
Publisher : Salem Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Apocalypse in literature
ISBN : 1642657549

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Critical Insights: Literature in Times of Crisis by Robert C. Evans Pdf

Almost since its inception, literature has emphasized and explored crises of various sorts, including political upheavals, social turmoil, destructive warfare, familial and personal conflicts, and devastating external dangers, especially those involving disease, the environment, the economy, and natural disasters. This book explores a wide range of kinds of crises and the ways they have been written about in literature of various genres and time periods. It also emphasizes the artistry involved in the various works it examines.

Author : Marilyn Leask,Sarah Younie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000430950

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Education for All in Times of Crisis by Marilyn Leask,Sarah Younie Pdf

This book is a response to the loss of learning experienced by children and young people during the Covid-19 crisis. It examines the measures which were taken to fix the disruption of education and their limitations particularly in reaching marginalised groups. Drawing on data and experiences from around the world, the book examines education systems as ecosystems with interdependencies between many different components which need to be considered when change is contemplated. Chapters explore the challenges involved ensuring continuity of education for all learners in times of crisis and disruption and set out practical solutions that are relevant when preparing for natural disasters and disasters caused by humans as well as for climate change challenges and future pandemics. The focus throughout is on building the sustainability of learners’ education into education systems to ensure educational continuity for all learners in times of disruption and crisis. Including tools for planning, prompts for reflection, and future possibilities to consider, Education for All in Times of Crisis will be valuable reading for school leaders, educators and policy makers.

Author : James Fenton,Julio Gimenez,Katherine Mansfield,Martin Percy,Mariangela Spinillo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000681154

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International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Academic English in Turbulent Times by James Fenton,Julio Gimenez,Katherine Mansfield,Martin Percy,Mariangela Spinillo Pdf

This volume shares proven strategies for Academic English teaching, research, and development in challenging circumstances. Through original first-hand experiences from around the world, the collection reveals how educators in higher education have responded to the specific needs and challenges of teaching second language learners in turbulent times, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Organised thematically, the book covers rapid responses to crises, adapting to teaching online, collaborations and online learning communities, and assessment practices. The volume provides original insights and practical suggestions for a range of practices across English for Academic and Specific Purposes that can address new and unfamiliar circumstances, both now and in future challenging times. The collection includes a wealth of effective strategies, varied research methodologies, and resources for practice making it an invaluable reference for practitioners, students, and researchers in the field of academic English, ESL/EFL, and online language instruction.

Author : Lori Czop Assaf,Patience Sowa,Katina Zammit
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781801179324

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Global Meaning Making by Lori Czop Assaf,Patience Sowa,Katina Zammit Pdf

Global Meaning Making disrupts and interrogates the contradictions and tensions in language and literacy global scholarship, reimagining global approaches that respect the histories, ways of knowing, needs, hopes and values of voices beyond the western, including those from the Global South.

Author : Daniel Burgos,Ahmed Tlili,Anita Tabacco
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811578694

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Radical Solutions for Education in a Crisis Context by Daniel Burgos,Ahmed Tlili,Anita Tabacco Pdf

This book presents how to keep working on education in contexts of crisis, such as emergencies, zones of conflict, wars and health pandemics such as COVID-19. Specifically, this work shows a number of strategies to support global learning and teaching in online settings. Particularly, it first presents how to facilitate knowledge sharing and raising awareness about a specific crisis, to increase people’s safety, including educators and learners. The book then discusses various techniques, mechanisms and services that could be implemented to provide effective learning support for learners, especially in learning environments that they do not daily use, such as physical classrooms. Further, the work presents how to teach and support online educators, no matter if they are school teachers, university lecturers, youth social workers, vocational training facilitators or of any other kind. Finally, it describes worldwide case studies that have applied practical steps to keep education running during a crisis. This book provides readers with insights and guidelines on how to maintain learning undisrupted during contexts of crisis. It also provides basic and practical recommendations to the various stakeholders in educational contexts (students, content providers, technology services, policy makers, school teachers, university lecturers, academic managers, and others) about flexible, personalised and effective education in the context of crisis.