Teaching literature text and dialogue in the English classroom / Ben Knights, editor.
| Other author | Knights, Ben, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Palgrave Macmillan 2017. |
| Description | xi, 252 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Series | Teaching the new English series Teaching the new English. ^A672260 |
| Contents | 1. Introduction: Teaching? Literature? / Ben Knights -- 2. Contrasts: teaching English in British and American universities / Gretchen H. Gerzina -- 3. Transition and discontinuity: pitfualls and opportunities in the move to university English universities / Andrew Green and Gary Snapper -- 4. The shame of teaching (English) / Rosie Miles -- 5. Transition into the profession: accuracy, sincerity and 'discliplinary consciousness' / Robert Eaglestone -- 6. 'Getting in conversation': teaching African American literature and training critical thinkers / Nicole King -- 7. Beyond the essay?: assessment and English literature / Jonathan Gibson -- 8. Critical or creative?: teaching crossover writing in English studies / Chris Thurgar-Dawson -- 8. Teaching 'Literature+': digital humanities hybrid courses in the era of MOOCs / Alan Liu -- 10. Teaching stylistics: foregrounding in E.E. Cummings / Dan McIntyre and Lesley Jeffries -- 11. Teaching historically: some limits to historicist teaching / Simon Dentith -- 12. Towards an unprecedented ecocritical pedagogy / Greg Garrard -- 13. Opening up the seminar: children's literature, a case study / Pamela Knights. |
| Abstract | 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 {u2018}English{u2019} 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 {u2018}research excellence{u2019}, but on re-awakening and reviving its pedagogic traditions. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781137311108 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017937742 |
| ISBN | 9781137311085 paperback |
| ISBN | 1137311088 paperback |
| ISBN | eBook |
| ISBN | eBook |
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