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Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher education classroom head on. Whether you're teaching in a community college, a state school, a liberal arts college, or an Ivy League institution, this book offers valuable advice and insights which will help you to motivate, incentivize and inspire your students.
Addressing questions such as: 'how do you articulate the value of literary education to students (and administrators, and parents)?', 'how can a class session with a fatigued and underprepared group of students be made productive?', and 'how do you incentivize overscheduled students to read energetically in preparation for class?', this book answers these universal quandaries and more, providing a usable philosophy of the value of literary education, articulating a set of learning goals for students of literature, and offering plenty of practical advice on pedagogical strategies, day-to-day coping, and more.
In its sum,
Teaching Literature in the Real World constitutes an experience-based philosophy of teaching literature that is practical and realistic, oriented towards helping students develop intellectual skills, and committed to pedagogy built on explicit, detailed, and observable learning objectives.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1. Why teach literature? Or, what exactly are we doing?
Chapter 2: Teaching advanced reading comprehension
Chapter 3: Teaching advanced literacy
Chapter 4: Articulating goals and designing integrated classes
Chapter 5: Managing relationships
Appendix 1: Engaging students in criticism and theory
Appendix 2: Grading and feedback in literature classes
Index
About the author
Patrick Collier is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Ball State University, USA, where he teaches 19th- and 20th-century British literature, film studies, and pedagogy. He is the author of
Modernism on Fleet Street (Ashgate 2006) and
Modern Print Artifacts (Edinburgh UP 2016).
Summary
Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher education classroom head on. Whether you're teaching in a community college, a state school, a liberal arts college, or an Ivy League institution, this book offers valuable advice and insights which will help you to motivate, incentivize and inspire your students.
Addressing questions such as: 'how do you articulate the value of literary education to students (and administrators, and parents)?', 'how can a class session with a fatigued and underprepared group of students be made productive?', and 'how do you incentivize overscheduled students to read energetically in preparation for class?', this book answers these universal quandaries and more, providing a usable philosophy of the value of literary education, articulating a set of learning goals for students of literature, and offering plenty of practical advice on pedagogical strategies, day-to-day coping, and more.
In its sum, Teaching Literature in the Real World constitutes an experience-based philosophy of teaching literature that is practical and realistic, oriented towards helping students develop intellectual skills, and committed to pedagogy built on explicit, detailed, and observable learning objectives.
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“A readable, practical guide that explores changes in higher education and how we can address them whilst engaging our students with our love for literature and the teaching of it. The author offers numerous practical suggestions for applying his discoveries to the classroom.”
