Janet Alsup

A Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School (eBook, ePUB)

Why Reading Fiction Matters in an Age of Scientific Objectivity and Standardization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the forces that affect English education in schools, this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach literature in middle and secondary classrooms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317585039
• Artikelnr.: 42819131

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword Michael Moore
Preface
1 Introduction: The Need to Make the Case for Teaching Literature
Part I: What Literature Can Do
1. Literature and Identification: How self becomes character
2. Literature and Empathy: How narrative stimulates emotion
3. Literature and Critical Thinking: How fiction makes us think\
4. Literature and Social Action: Can reading change what we do?
Part II: Challenges to Literary Study
5. Literature Curriculum and Standards-based Education
6. Case Study: College Town Middle School, with Taylor Norman and
Tiffany Sedberry
Part III: Reviving the Secondary School Literary Experience
7. Implications for English Teacher Education
8. Teaching literature for profit or pleasure?
9. 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