Units
Literature In Secondary Teaching
Unit code: CLB322
Contact hours: 3 per week
Credit points: 12
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This unit covers the following topics: literature teaching in historical perspective; recent developments in theory; poetry in the senior school; teaching drama in the senior school; teaching the novel in the senior school; shorter works (novellas, short stories) and their use in the English curriculum.
Availability
| Semester | Available |
|---|---|
| 2013 Semester 2 | Yes |
Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2013
Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.
Rationale
A number of recent studies in literary and cultural theory have focused on issues such as the nature of reader-text interaction, the complex of processes involved in the production (writing) and reception (reading) of texts, and the culturally constructed nature of readers and writers.
This subject utilises students' responses to 'literary' texts, and their writing/rewriting/transformation of parallel text as a basis for reflexive analysis of the processes involved in response to literature and the necessary connections between reading and writing.
Aims
N/A
Objectives
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
1. Understand and evaluate the nature of readers' response to 'literary' texts: their own and those of the students they will teach.
2. Experiment with a range of written genres as part of a deliberate attempt to integrate the teaching of reading and writing.
3. Make informed choices of appropriate texts for teaching in the upper primary and secondary school.
4. Develop teaching approaches to these texts which exhibit an understanding of current literary and cultural theory.
Content
This unit covers the following topics:
1. Reading and Literary Response
A reader-response approach to literature will be placed in the context of cultural heritage, new critical, and cultural theory approaches.
2. Redefinition of Literature
Canonic views of literature will be contrasted with reconstructed views of literary and popular culture texts.
3. Reading Practices and Positions
Open and closed texts. Literary and cultural repertoires. Gaps, silences and contradictions in texts. Reading and power. Reading and gender.
4. The Reading-Writing Nexus
Formula stories and conventional narrative. Textual ideology and unconventional narrative. Intertextuality and re-reading. Textuality in the classroom.
5. Issues in the Literature Classroom
Criteria for text selection. Censorship. Bibliotherapy. Levels of response to literature.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
The reading-writing praxis which is the foundation of this subject requires that students will both encounter and produce a range of texts in a workshop situation. These experiences will be linked to lectures which will cover a range of relevant literary and cultural theory.
Assessment name:
Assignment 1
Description:
Novel journal and associated extension/transformation activities.
Relates to objectives:
1, 2, 3
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
Mid semester
Assessment name:
Assignment 2
Description:
Cumulative reading-writing file to be submitted at last class meeting.
Relates to objectives:
n/a
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Individual
Due date:
End of semester
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Resource materials
Corcoran, B & Evans, E (1987) Readers, Texts, Teachers, Upper Montclair, NJ:
Boynton/Cook
Easthope, A (1991) Literary into Cultural Studies. London: Routledge
Farrell E & J Squire (Eds) (1990) Transaction with Literature. Urbana, Illinois:
National Council of Teachers of English
Griffith, P (1987) Literary Theory and English Teaching. London: Open
University Press
Moon, B (1990) Studying Literature. Perth: Chalkface Press
Scholes, R (1990) Protocols of Reading. New York: Yale University Press
Risk assessment statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Last modified: 26-Oct-2012
