Teaching Literature: Text And Dialogue In The English Classroom (teaching The New English)
by Ben Knights /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book comprises reflections by experienced scholar teachers
on the principles and practice of higher education English
teaching. In approaching the subject from different angles it
aims to spark insights and to foster imaginative teaching. In the
era of audit, and the Teaching Excellence Framework it invites
teachers to return to the sources of their own teaching
knowledge. The shift from a student-centred to a research-centred
paradigm has particular implications for a discipline which
prides itself on its teaching, and has always had teaching and
dialogue at its heart. One which also talks across the tertiary /
secondary border to the cognate (though different) subject called
‘English’ in school. The argument which informs this book, and
which is developed in the individual chapters, is that the future
of the subject relies not alone upon fostering communities of
‘research excellence’, but on re-awakening and reviving its
pedagogic traditions.
This book comprises reflections by experienced scholar teachers
on the principles and practice of higher education English
teaching. In approaching the subject from different angles it
aims to spark insights and to foster imaginative teaching. In the
era of audit, and the Teaching Excellence Framework it invites
teachers to return to the sources of their own teaching
knowledge. The shift from a student-centred to a research-centred
paradigm has particular implications for a discipline which
prides itself on its teaching, and has always had teaching and
dialogue at its heart. One which also talks across the tertiary /
secondary border to the cognate (though different) subject called
‘English’ in school. The argument which informs this book, and
which is developed in the individual chapters, is that the future
of the subject relies not alone upon fostering communities of
‘research excellence’, but on re-awakening and reviving its
pedagogic traditions.
