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Reading the World, the Globe, and the Cosmos: Approaches to Teaching Literature for the Twenty-first Century: 28 (Global Studies in Education) - Softcover

Book 5 of 15: Global Studies in Education

Choo, Suzanne S.

 
9781433121777: Reading the World, the Globe, and the Cosmos: Approaches to Teaching Literature for the Twenty-first Century: 28 (Global Studies in Education)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1433121778 ISBN 13: 9781433121777
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2013

Synopsis

This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.

The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical criticism, it provides an account of core approaches to teaching literature that have emerged across history and the conceptual values informing these approaches. More importantly, Reading the World discusses how these values have been shaped by broader global forces and key movements in the discipline of English Literature. To varying degrees, these approaches are aimed at cultivating a hospitable imagination so that students may more fully engage with multiple others in the world. Given the reality of an increasingly interconnected twenty-first century, literature pedagogy plays a vital role in schools by demonstrating how world, global, and cosmopolitan approaches to teaching literature can facilitate the prioritization of the other, challenge us to think about how we can be accountable to multiple others in the world, and push us to continually problematize the boundaries of our openness towards the other.

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About the Author

Suzanne S. Choo is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She obtained her PhD in English Education from Columbia University, USA. Her research in literature education has been recognized with the Walter Sindlinger Writing Award from Teachers College, Columbia University and the International Award for Excellence from the International Journal of the Humanities.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1433121778
ISBN 13 
9781433121777
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
210