Teaching Classics with Technology - Softcover

Bartolo Natoli; Steven Hunt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350110930 ISBN 13: 9781350110939

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Synopsis

The impact of ICT on the teaching of classical languages, literature and culture has not until now been extensively described and evaluated. Nevertheless, educational technology has made a huge difference to the ways in which Classics is taught at junior, senior and college level. The book brings together ten major approaches to the use of technology in the classroom and presents them for a wide, international audience. It thus forms a record of current and developing practice, promotes further discussion and use among practitioners (teachers, learners and trainers) and offers suggestions for changes in pedagogical practices in the teaching of Classics for the better. The many examples of practice from both UK and US perspectives are applicable to countries throughout the world where Classics is being taught. The more traditional curricula of high-school education in the UK and Europe are drawing more and more on edutech, whereas educational jurisdictions in the US are increasingly expecting high-school students to use ICT in all lessons, with some actively dissuading schools from using traditional printed textbooks. This book presents school teachers with a vital resource as they adapt to this use of educational technology in Classics teaching. This is no less pertinent at university level, in the UK and US, where pedagogy tends to follow traditionalist paradigms: this book offers lecturers frameworks for understanding and assimilating the models of teaching and learning which are prevalent in schools and experienced by their students.

About this title

About the Authors

Bartolo Natoli is Lecturer in Classics at Randolph-MaconCollege, USA.

Steven Hunt is Associate Teaching Professor in Classics Education at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is Subject Lead for the PGCE in Latin and Classics and is editor of the Journal of Classics Teaching. He works extensively with the charity Classics for All to develop Classics in state schools in the UK. He is author of Starting to Teach Latin (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) and Teaching Latin: Contexts, Theories and Practices (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022). He is co-editor of Communicative Approaches to Teaching Classical Languages (2021), Teaching Classics with Technology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and Forward with Classics (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350110930
• ISBN 13: 9781350110939
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bartolo Natoli, Steven Hunt