Category: Pedagogy
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There’s many jobs to complete around Discipline of English, and I’ve rather given myself too many threads to tie off! But one I want to get done asap is to turn the Literature lessons into a student workbook. This is inspired by a school I visited once upon a time that printed their own workbooks…
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Traditional schemes of work intend to ‘foster a love of reading’, and attempt this through prescriptivist reading dogma. This fails to teach the decoding strategies needed to understand literary texts, and you cannot love what you do not understand.
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In my previous post, I attempted to impart some of Adrian Johns’ examination of the durability, permanence or ‘fixity’ inherent in printed literature, to maintain meanings indefinitely. It has been assumed by other academics that the very technology, the print itself and the construction of the book, carries some innate permanence as a priori, but…
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Something that struck me as of paramount importance when designing these lessons was to open with some discussion of ‘what literature is’, The small ‘l’ denoting the common, concrete noun of the object-in-hand, as opposed to capital ‘L’ denoting the proper, abstract noun of the course; Literature. How we define this object as literary, and…
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Students become bored during lessons. They become bored of the lesson. They are bored by the lesson. And sometimes, no matter what we try to do as teachers, there seems to be no antidote to their boredom. But in trying to fix boredom we are actually contributing to greater difficulty accessing the lesson. Maybe teachers…
