2009 AM Literature and the School System

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Course Description

09.04.09

Introduction. Technicalities.

- Past vs. present Perspectives

- Academic vs. Pedagogical Perspectives

- Foreign Language Instruction vs. Native Language Teaching of Literature.

16.04.09

A Look Back: Literature and Pedagogy, 1908 and 1934:

Before reading the texts below, please take your time and put down your idea of

- why we should read literature in school

- how it should be taught or read in school and

- what you consider good literature education.

Just take about ten minutes to think about this and take down some notes. You do not need to write a whole text.

Please send your notes to soeren.koopmann@uni-oldenburg.de

Incoming notes will be organised in an anonymised list for discussion next week.

Questions for discussing these two articles:

  1. What claims do the authors make about literature?
  2. What do they say about the current practice of teaching literature?
  3. What do they say about how literature should be taught?
  4. What roles do factors such as race/class/gender play in their views?
  • in case you are curious about a poem mentioned by Sampson, here is the link to the enotes.com page on Ozymandias

23.04.09

Training Teachers of Literature at the University, then and now (1887/2006):

Please take note of the different types of exam questions proposed.

The Chambers and Marshall text is quite long, please concentrate on pages 122-136 and 150-156. Also, you can find examplary lessons from this book at the bottom of this page.

30.04.09

Critical, Theoretical and Historical Perspectives:

or abridged: Bourdieu, Pierre: 'Artistic Tast and Cultural Capital' Culture and Society. Comtemporary Debates Ed. Jeffrey Alexander, Steven Seidman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 205-215.

07.05.09

Masterverordnung und Kerncurricula

14.05.09

German Didactics of English Literature: Current Concepts and Historical Perspectives II

[u.a. Friederike Klippel, Englischlernen im 18. u. 19 Jhd.]

21.05.09

Ascension

28.05.09

MaVo und Kerncurricula Abiturthemen.

04.06.09

11.06.09

18.06.09

25.06.09

02.07.09

09.07.09

Literature

Shakespeare

Theory and Criticism


Didactical Examples