Teaching With Dystopian Text - Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience

Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around "Orwellian Spaces" signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education.

List of contents

Introduction: Urgency of Dystopian Text 1: Picture(s) of the Future 2: Grim Visions in the Classroom 3: Learning from Orwell 4: Orwellian Spaces 5: Critical Selection of Dystopian Text 6: Course Design 7: Brave New Pedagogy: A Classroom Story 8: Teaching Dystopian Text During COVID-19 9: Teaching Dystopian Text in a Dystopian Educational Climate

About the author

Michael Arthur Soares is a secondary school English Teacher and an English Adjunct Faculty Member at Heartland Community College, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Arthur Soares, Michael Arthur (Heartland Community Colleg Soares
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032488554
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248855-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Research in Literacy Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Secondary Schools, Teaching of a specific subject, Literacy (Theories of reading and writing)