Re-Mapping Literary Worlds: Postcolonial Pedagogy in Practice

ISBN-13: 9780820457529 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 178 str.

Ingrid Johnston; Joe L. Kincheloe; Shirley R. Steinberg

Recenzje

«Ingrid Johnston has created a compelling research text from her intensive collaborative classroom-based work with Meg, a high school English teacher. Weaving the field texts into a metaphorical journey, Johnston creates a text that takes readers from her early years in South Africa to a multicultural high school in Canada. As a reader of her book, I was shown the continuities and discontinuities as she moved skillfully within the dimensions of time and place, the personal and the social. The research is a work of the borderlands - borderlands we are coming to recognize both in curriculum theory and in educational research. For students of narrative inquiry and of curriculum theory, it is a must read.» (Jean Clandinin, Professor and Director, Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
«In 'Re-mapping Literary Worlds', Ingrid Johnston invites her readers to join her on a journey of inquiry into the role and potential of postcolonial literature in the educational preparation of school youth. Johnston's journey ranges across a wide intellectual terrain connecting literature, pedagogy, and philosophy with the latest insights in postcolonial theory. 'Re-mapping Literary Worlds' is an excellent book. Johnston writes with a marvelous succinctness and fluidity of style about the very complex matters of place, identity, experience, and the production and arrangement of school knowledge in the modern educational context marked as it is by radical imperatives of globalization, electronic mediation, migration, and cultural pluralism. 'Re-mapping Literary Worlds' is an exemplary piece of interdisciplinary scholarship. Johnston is able to integrate theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives with great facility and rigor. I highly recommend this book to academics and educational practitioners alike.» (Cameron McCarthy, Research Professor and University Scholar, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois)
«'Re-mapping Literary Worlds' is an invaluable guide for English teachers who want to develop their knowledge and practice in teaching postcolonial literatures. Beginning with the premise that major reforms are needed in teacher education in order to move English syllabi away from a narrow traditional base, this book offers an accessible but conceptually sophisticated and historically well-grounded perspective on the place of postcolonial studies in the English classroom. It is a timely study that shows how the contemporary teaching of English must engage with a significant reconfiguration of books, theories, and pedagogic practice.» (John Stephens, Acting Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

O autorze

The Author: Ingrid Johnston is an Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta, Canada. She received her B.A. and University Education Diploma from the University of Natal, South Africa and her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. She teaches courses and conducts research in English education, curriculum studies, postcolonial theories, and issues of culture and teacher education. She has published widely in international journals and has written several book chapters related to postcolonial and multicultural literary studies.