A Case for Teaching Literature in the Seco...

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Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools-at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected-this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach literature in middle and secondary classrooms. The case is made through critical examination of the ongoing "culture wars" between the humanities and the sciences, recent research in cognitive literary studies demonstrating the power of narrative reading, and an analysis of educational trends that have marginalized literature teaching in the U.S., including standards-based and scripted curricula. The book is distinctive in presenting both a synthesis of arguments for literary study in the middle and high school and sample lesson plans from practicing teachers exemplifying how literature can positively influence adolescents' intellectual, emotional, and social selves.

Über den Autor

Janet Alsup is Professor of English Education, Purdue University, USA.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword Michael Moore

Preface

1 Introduction: The Need to Make the Case for Teaching Literature

Part I: What Literature Can Do

Literature and Identification: How self becomes character
Literature and Empathy: How narrative stimulates emotion
Literature and Critical Thinking: How fiction makes us think\
Literature and Social Action: Can reading change what we do?

Part II: Challenges to Literary Study

Literature Curriculum and Standards-based Education
Case Study: College Town Middle School, with Taylor Norman and Tiffany Sedberry

Part III: Reviving the Secondary School Literary Experience

Implications for English Teacher Education
Teaching literature for profit or pleasure?
Literature and morality

Appendix A: Additional sample lessons and activities for teaching literature to encourage identification, empathy, critical thinking and social action

Appendix B: Additional, related sample activities

About the Contributors

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781138823471
ISBN-10:	1138823473
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Alsup, Janet
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Janet Alsup
Erscheinungsdatum:	20.04.2015
Gewicht:	0,256 kg

Artikel-ID: 128424988