Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780367637996 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 116 str.

Sofia Ahlberg

Opis

Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis introduces teachers to methods for reading and studying literature with the aim of strengthening and promoting resilience and resourcefulness in and out of the literature classroom to empower students as global citizens with local roles to play.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Case Study One: Discovering the Weird and the Wonderful in a Changing World  2. Case Study Two: What the Coming-of-Age Story Teaches Us about the Anthropocene  3. Case Study Three: Things to Do With the Canon in the Classroom  4. Case Study Four: Modern Again: Tell it from the Scars  5. Wider Contexts: Twenty-First-Century Skills and Competencies  Bibliography

O autorze

Sofia Ahlberg is Vice Dean of the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, Sweden, with responsibility for education and collaboration. She teaches and researches on contemporary literature, pedagogy, and ecocriticism.