Learning Literature in an Era of Change
Title | Learning Literature in an Era of Change PDF eBook |
Author | Dona J. Hickey |
Publisher | Stylus Publishing, LLC. |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781579220181 |
This book presents a range of teaching strategies developed by teachers of literature who have heard the call from students, employers, and academic administrators for more relevant learning experiences in an ever-changing world. Integrating critical theory and classroom experience, the contributors to this book demonstrate how they foster learning, collaboration and cooperation, and creative thinking. The book abounds with descriptions of successful non-traditional teaching strategies. We see teachers collaborating across disciplines and across colleges, in some cases across countries and grade levels, and demystifying literary studies for students brought up on visual media. Many of the contributors lead their campuses in the use of computer-mediated communication and multimedia to support instruction. The chapters exemplify the shift from understanding teaching as "making students see what the teacher sees," to inviting them to engage texts together, as a community, and to learn how, with their teacher, knowledge and authority are culturally and socially constructed. In Learning Literature in an Era of Change practicing teachers offer their peers in literature and composition, and faculty developers, an exciting range of new models where professors are partners in learning, and where education is not delivered but discovered and disseminated.
Radical Change
Title | Radical Change PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza T. Dresang |
Publisher | H. W. Wilson |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Education |
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Proposing a conceptual framework for evaluating "hand-held" books, Dresang (information studies, Florida State U.) explains how books are changing along with developments in digital information and how librarians, teachers, and parents can recognize and use books to create connections for and among young people using digital concepts and designs that emphasize multilayered, nonlinear stories and information. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Changing Literacies for Changing Times
Title | Changing Literacies for Changing Times PDF eBook |
Author | James V. Hoffman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2009-09-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135845751 |
Offering the wisdom that only experience and expertise in the field can bring, this book takes a critical look into the present and the future of literacy as envisioned by leading reading researchers. The lead author of each chapter, and in some cases more than one, of the authors, is a distinguished reading researcher elected by their peers into the Reading Hall of Fame. In this book these distinguished literacy leaders extend their role as researchers to speak directly to issues of practice and policy. All chapters address the theme of literacy and the teaching of literacy as being in a constant state of change. The authors are theoretical as they describe literacy, literacy acquisition, and the teaching of literacy; they are practical as they examine the issues that classroom teachers and reading specialists engage with on a daily basis; and they are political as they advocate for informed policy at the local, state and national levels. A key message in this book is that literacy professionals must take an active role to shape change.
Literature and Transformation
Title | Literature and Transformation PDF eBook |
Author | Thor Magnus Tangerås |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2020-02-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1785272950 |
It has long remained a tacit assumption in hermeneutics and literary theory that works of imaginative literature have the potential to change the reader’s self. Literature and Transformation develops a method called Intimate Reading to investigate how ordinary readers are deeply moved by what they read and the transformative impact such experiences have on their sense of self. The book presents unique narratives of such experiences and suggests a theory of transformative affective patterns that may form the basis of an affective literary theory.
In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love
Title | In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Luzzi |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 159 |
Release | 2015-06-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0008100640 |
A story of love and grief. ‘I became a widower and a father on the same day’ says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.
How Literature Changes the Way We Think
Title | How Literature Changes the Way We Think PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Mack |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441119140 |
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English Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching in a Changing Era
Title | English Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching in a Changing Era PDF eBook |
Author | Suwarsih Madya |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 449 |
Release | 2019-10-22 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0429664982 |
This book offers a wide range of topics for the scholar interested in the study of English in this unsettling era of disruption in our lives – from linguistics to literature to language teaching and learning. The chapters present snippets of thoughts and critical reflections, findings from action research and other methodologies, and essays on troubling topics for language teachers. The authors are researchers, experienced teachers, and students engaged in exploratory research. The many ideas and suggestions for further reflection and research will inspire teachers and researchers working in many different contexts, both educational and regional. There is something in this book for everybody.