The study has two major related goals. The first is to develop a pedagogy with which to teach feminist Chinese literature to female Taiwanese college students. The second is to develop a pedagogy within the context of a feminist Chinese literature class which raises students' feminist consciousness. There are two research questions related to the main goals: (1) What elements constitute an effective pedagogy for teaching feminist Chinese literature at the college level to Taiwanese students? (2) How does studying feminist Chinese literature within the context of a course in question #1 affect Taiwanese female students' feminist consciousness? The design of the research centers around the teaching of a course on feminist Chinese literature from a cultural perspective, with detailed examination of student reactions to both the pedagogy and content of the course, gathered from various sources. The study involves implementing planned instructional strategies in an effort to incorporate a whole language pedagogy and then systematically submitting the strategies to observation, reflection, and change. The data collected in this study consists of several different components: students interviews, papers and journals, questionnaires, transcripts of classroom discussions and my own personal journal containing my observations and reflections on my decisions as a teacher/researcher. Findings basic to the success of this research were: (1) Students became less dependent on the teacher. (2) Students became more responsive over time to classroom discussion and interaction as a method for learning. (3) Student participation was enhanced indirectly by showing respect for them as individuals and for their ideas; and directly by praising their participation in class and by grading them for class participation. (4) Students beliefs did not change radically but they become more receptive to other student's ideas. (5) Students were influenced by feminist pedagogy. (6) Prior knowledge can be built upon through the sharing of experiences. (7) The teacher's attention to student self-esteem and confidence had a significant impact. (8) Students experience some degree of conflict in trying to reconcile their feminist consciousness with their individual lives. Finally, I propose to adjust these findings to traditional teaching style currently in use in Taiwan, specifically with regard to changes in the process of learning, moving from a teacher-centered process to one in which the students are more actively involved.

This thesis addresses three questions regarding education in South African High Schools: Why teach English literature? What English literature should be taught? How should English literature be taught? The thesis adopts an historical perspective in that it traces the lineages of influence from Britain in particular, and explores the attitudes and concerns of the academics and teachers of South Africa as they attempt to establish a rigorous discipline regarding South Africa’s literary heritage and the education curriculum. Theoretical concerns that are explored include the influence of the Cambridge School, the concepts presented by the Marxists and Cultural Materialists, and the position of Theory as it became more significant in the second half of the 20th Century. There is also recognition of scholarship deriving from the United States of America, in that the work of the New Critics and Harold Bloom are considered. The work of significant South African critics such as Guy Butler, Mike Kirkwood and Tim Couzens is also explored, and the attempt to grapple with English in a multilingual society is considered. The curriculum documents that emerged in the post-1994 era are critiqued, and there is reference to the work of Taylor and Vinjevold.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, School of Education, 2014. / Abstract for PhD Thesis: An Investigation into the Teaching of English Literature at Senior Secondary School Level, with a Particular Emphasis on the Reason for Teaching Literature, the Selection of Texts, and Methodology Used. By David Edwin Robinson This thesis addresses three questions regarding education in South African High Schools: Why teach English literature? What English literature should be taught? How should English literature be taught? The thesis adopts an historical perspective in that it traces the lineages of influence from Britain in particular, and explores the attitudes and concerns of the academics and teachers of South Africa as they attempt to establish a rigorous discipline regarding South Africa’s literary heritage and the education curriculum. Theoretical concerns that are explored include the influence of the Cambridge School, the concepts presented by the Marxists and Cultural Materialists, and the position of Theory as it became more significant in the second half of the 20th Century. There is also recognition of scholarship deriving from the United States of America, in that the work of the New Critics and Harold Bloom are considered. The work of significant South African critics such as Guy Butler, Mike Kirkwood and Tim Couzens is also explored, and the attempt to grapple with English in a multilingual society is considered. The curriculum documents that emerged in the post-1994 era are critiqued, and there is reference to the work of Taylor and Vinjevold.

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo central ampliar os saberes sobre a animalidade, implicando outras relações de alteridade na educação, a partir da emergência de uma noção de poéticas da animalidade, movimentada pela criação de um diálogo entre as provocações ético-estéticas de certas obras das artistas visuais Ana Teresa Barboza e Nara Amelia e das escritoras Clarice Lispector, Veronica Stigger e Noemi Jaffe. Para tanto, a pesquisa estabelece três movimentos, sempre permeados pelas obras escolhidas, que nos provocam a olhar nosso objeto de outros modos. O primeiro movimento consiste em uma apresentação do recente campo de estudos da animalidade, em que se inserem os teóricos, escritoras e artistas parceiros desta investigação. No segundo movimento, a partir de um diálogo entre literatura e artes visuais, percorremos algumas construções filosóficas e históricas que aparentemente nos fizeram temer e negar nossa animalidade, como também buscamos outras visões que multiplicam o que entendemos por animalidade e suas relações com outras formas de alteridade, a partir do pensamento de Eduardo Viveiros de Castro e de Jacques Derrida. O terceiro movimento se estabelece a partir de uma criação poética da animalidade, no diálogo entre determinadas obras das artistas visuais e escritoras escolhidas. Assim, cria-se uma condição de possibilidade para a emergência do conceito de poéticas da animalidade enquanto potências que nos provocam, desestabilizam, educam mediante outras racionalidades. Esse conceito será movimentado a partir de uma noção de experiências de animalidade, experiências de alteridade, em algumas memórias da animalidade que habita a escola, bem como da presença real dos animais nesse espaço, com a contribuição do pensamento de Carlos Skliar. Esses exercícios, entrelaçados ao conceito de poéticas da animalidade, são entendidos como operações pedagógicas de resistência, criação poética e estética na escola, que buscam outras formas de pensar nossa animalidade e a convivência com os outros enquanto alteridades radicais, independentemente de sua forma, gênero, espécie e raça, provocando-nos a usar de outros modos a razão, a linguagem e nossa sensibilidade. Por fim, sugere-se que, para essas operações acontecerem na escola, é necessário pensarmos num outro tempo escolar: um tempo de animalidade na escola, um tempo de sentir e permitir-se ser outros, um tempo que suspende nossas certezas demasiadamente humanas de um saber puramente racional que não deu conta dos problemas que temos enfrentado na escola, na vida e no mundo, um tempo que nos leva a pensar na possibilidade de uma formação ―humana‖ pela animalidade. / This research aims mainly at broadening the knowledge on animality, implying other relations of alterity in education, starting from the emergence of a notion of the animality poetics, triggered by the creation of dialog between the ethical-aesthetical provocation in certain works from visual arts artists Ana Teresa Barboza and Nara Amelia, as well as in writers Clarice Lispector‘s, Veronica Stigger‘s, and Noemi Jaffe‘s works. For this purpose, three moves are established in the research, always permeated by the selected works, which lead us to look at our subject from a different perspective. The first move consists in a presentation of the recent field of studies of animality, which includes the theorists, writers, and partner artists of this investigation. In the second move, beginning from a dialog between literature and visual arts, we range over some philosophical and historical constructions, which, apparently, have made us fear and deny our animality. Likewise, we search for other views that multiply what we understand as animality and its relations with other forms of alterity, according to Eduardo Viveiros‘ and Jacques Derridas‘ way of thinking. The third move is based on a poetic creation of animality in the dialog among some specific works from the chosen visual arts artists and writers. Thus, a Condition of Possibility is created for the emergence of the concept of animality poetics as powers that provoke, destabilize, and educate us, in face of other rationale. This concept will be moved starting from a perception of experiences with animality and alterity, in some animality memories that inhabit the school, as well as the real presence of the animals in that area, according to Carlos Skliar‘s way of thinking. These exercises, interwoven with the concept of animality poetics, are acknowledged as pedagogical operations of resistance, poetic and aesthetic creation in the school, which seek other ways of thinking in relation to our animality and the interaction with others as radical alterity, apart from their shape, gender, species, and race, provoking us to use reasoning, language, as well as our sensibility, in different ways. Finally, for such operations to take place in the school, we need to think about another school time; a time with animality in the school, a time to feel and allow ourselves to be the others, a time that lays off our excessively human certainties from a purely rational knowledge, which has not taken control over the matters we have faced in school, in life, and in the world as well, a time that leads us to think of the possibility of a ―human‖ formation through the animality.

Thesis (Ed. S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Psychology, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 22-24).

This thesis deals with the problem of handicapped individual in children's literature as a subject for drama education. The diploma thesis has two parts. In the first theoretical part, I dealt with the issue of handicap, the relation of literature and dramatic education with a focus on literature with handicapped hero and assessed the possibilities of using such literature in the process of dramatic education. The practical part was based on action research, which took place in 5 literary and drama lessons, which were created on the basis of a literary masterpiece. During the evaluation, I focused mainly on changing the relationship between handicapped and disabled people based on the experience of dramatic education. In addition, questions have been examined if this topic is not difficult for pupils of primary school and what pitfalls it can bring.

This essay explores the use of young adult literature, primarily the young adult novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (2008), and how it creates an educational potential for learning and discussing ethics and ethical dilemmas for upper secondary school students. First, the curriculum for upper secondary school in Sweden is examined and confirms literature as important content of communication in the English subject and what the role of literature can be. Further, the curriculum’s ethical aspects are analysed, and it is affirmed that ethics has a significant part in the Swedish school and the English subject. However, the curriculum does not state how ethics should be taught. Additionally, research is presented and displays the connection between ethics and literature. Suzanne S. Choo’s thoughts and ideas on teaching ethics through literature are the framework of the analysis, and by analysing the ethical themes and issues in The Hunger Games, the aim is to prove the educational potential of teaching ethics with the use of the novel. The novel contains multiple ethical themes and topics suitable for an upper secondary school class, both broader themes regarding social and political issues, and internal ethical dilemmas. In conclusion, the novel appeals to many of the qualities requested in a book by young adults, and the educational potential is promising.

Esta pesquisa, de cunho bibliográfico e abordagem fenomenológica, visa contribuir com as discussões sobre pedagogia da escolha e itinerários de formação buscando articular a maneira como a instituição escolar aborda o texto literário e como este circula socialmente na contemporaneidade. O contraponto à instrumentalização escolar é dado pela noção de formação, pela qual se busca a valorização da experiência e da sensibilidade propiciada pela leitura de literatura. Contribuem teoricamente para esse itinerário as reflexões de Jorge Larrosa Bondía, Antonio Candido, Regina Zilberman e Beatriz Fétizon. Boaventura de Sousa Santos e Néstor García Canclini iluminam as abordagens sobre a circulação da literatura na paisagem contemporânea, pela quais se apresenta sua dimensão formativa frente às desigualdades sociais e de acesso, principalmente, aos dispositivos tecnológicos. / The bibliographical and phenomenological approach of this given research aims to contribute to discussions on the pedagogy of choice and training itineraries, in order to articulate how the literary text is addressed by the school institution and how it circulates socially nowadays. The counterpoint to school instrumentation is given by the idea of formation, in which one seeks the appreciation of the experience and the response triggered by reading literature. The theoretical contributions to this itinerary are based on the reflections of Jorge Larrosa Bondía, Antonio Candido, Regina Zilberman and Beatriz Fétizon. Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Néstor García Canclini shed light on the approaches regarding the circulation of literature within the contemporary landscape, leading to its formative dimension towards social inequality and the lack of access to, mainly, technological devices.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-12-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:34:47Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ferreira_eagr_dr_assis.pdf: 2031874 bytes, checksum: 15332841c37e6b6646de44d6ac7ece9d (MD5) / O trabalho é resultado de uma pesquisa, desenvolvida durante três anos, direcionada para o ensino de literatura e para a formação do leitor no âmbito escolar. Como objetivo geral, buscouse refletir sobre como se forma o leitor e como vão se articulando escolhas e preferências por determinados autores e determinadas obras. A partir do desenvolvimento dessa pesquisa, pôde-se realizar um levantamento do repertório de obras lidas, no período de 1998 a 2000, por alunos de 5ª, 6ª e 7ª séries, em três modalidades de leitura – opcional, proposta pela professora, e opcional entre uma série de obra(s) de autor(es) indicado(s) pela professora –, bem como diagnosticar quais são as consideradas por eles como atraentes. Entre as consideradas mais atraentes, analisou-se nesta tese a obra Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal, de J. K. Rowling, que obteve o maior índice de aceitação entre as obras pertencentes à modalidade de leitura proposta pela professora. A análise, pautada pela estética da recepção, objetivou detectar o horizonte de expectativa dos alunos, por meio da recepção da obra. Concomitante às obras eleitas pelos alunos, desenvolveu-se um trabalho embasado nos princípios construtivistas, voltado para a leitura de textos diversos de diferentes autores, com o objetivo de lhes possibilitar a ampliação de seu horizonte de expectativa. Para tanto, trabalhou-se com o conceito de leitor estético, privilegiando, como metodologia de leitura, o ato de ler como exercício de comparações artísticas e culturais que o texto carrega. / This work is the result of an investigation, developed for three years, targeted to the literature teaching and to train the reader in the school environment. As a general objective, with this work was searched to reflect on how the reader is trained and the choices and preferences are articulated by certain authors and certain works. From the development of this research, it was able to realize a survey of the repertoire of works read from 1998 to 2000 by students in the 5th, 6th and 7th grades, as well as diagnosing which works are attractively regarded by them. Among those considered the most attractive, it was examined in this thesis the work Harry Potter and the philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling, elected in the modality: reading proposed by the teacher. The analysis, based on the aesthetic reception, aimed to detect the horizon of the students’ expectation, by means of the work reception. Concomitant to the works selected by the students, it was developed a work based on the constructivist principles towards reading of several texts by different authors in order to make them to broaden their horizon of expectation. For that, it was used the aesthetic reader concept, privileging, as the reading methodology, the reading act as an exercise of artistic and cultural comparisons which the text brings in itself.

Esta pesquisa, de cunho bibliográfico e abordagem fenomenológica, visa contribuir com as discussões sobre pedagogia da escolha e itinerários de formação buscando articular a maneira como a instituição escolar aborda o texto literário e como este circula socialmente na contemporaneidade. O contraponto à instrumentalização escolar é dado pela noção de formação, pela qual se busca a valorização da experiência e da sensibilidade propiciada pela leitura de literatura. Contribuem teoricamente para esse itinerário as reflexões de Jorge Larrosa Bondía, Antonio Candido, Regina Zilberman e Beatriz Fétizon. Boaventura de Sousa Santos e Néstor García Canclini iluminam as abordagens sobre a circulação da literatura na paisagem contemporânea, pela quais se apresenta sua dimensão formativa frente às desigualdades sociais e de acesso, principalmente, aos dispositivos tecnológicos. / The bibliographical and phenomenological approach of this given research aims to contribute to discussions on the pedagogy of choice and training itineraries, in order to articulate how the literary text is addressed by the school institution and how it circulates socially nowadays. The counterpoint to school instrumentation is given by the idea of formation, in which one seeks the appreciation of the experience and the response triggered by reading literature. The theoretical contributions to this itinerary are based on the reflections of Jorge Larrosa Bondía, Antonio Candido, Regina Zilberman and Beatriz Fétizon. Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Néstor García Canclini shed light on the approaches regarding the circulation of literature within the contemporary landscape, leading to its formative dimension towards social inequality and the lack of access to, mainly, technological devices.