2009 AM Literature and the School System

• Time: Thursdays 10-12 am

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.

• McNary, S. J.: ‘The Preparation of a Class for a Lesson in Literature’, The Pedagogical Seminary, 15, 1908, 484-491.

• Sampson, George: ‘Literature in the Classroom’, Essays and Studies XX (1934), 123-134.

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 not of the different proposed types of exam questions.

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.

• Collins, John C.: ‘Can English Literature Be Taught?’ The Nineteenth Century, 129 (1887:Nov.), 1887, 642-658.

• Chambers, Ellie; Gregory, Marshall: Teaching & Learning Literature, London: Sage, 2006, Ch. 5.

30.04.09

Critical, Theoretical and Historical Perspectives:

• Bourdieu, Pirre : ‘Elemente zu einer soziologischen Theorie der Kunstwahrnehmung’, Zur Soziologie der symbolischen Formen 159-201.
• Hunter, Ian: ‘Leaning the Literature Lesson: The Limits of the Aesthetic Personality’, Towards a Critical Sociology of Teaching Pedagogy Ed. Carolyn D. Baker, Allan Luke, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 1991, 49-82.

07.05.09

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

[u.a. Jarfe, Bredella. etc. ]

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.

Literature

• Board of Education: The Teaching of English in England, London: HMSO, 1921 (Newbolt Report).
• Brown, George: On the Teaching of English in Elementary and High Schools, Chicago: University of Chicago, 1906.
• Collins, John C.: ‘Can English Literature Be Taught?’ The Nineteenth Century, 129 (1887:Nov.), 1887, 642-658.
• Collins, John C.: The Study of English Literature, London: Macmillan, 1891.
• English Association, The: English Papers in Examinations for Pupils of School Age in England and Wales, London 1917.
• McMillan, M: Education through the Imagination, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1904.
• McNary, S. J.: ‘The Preparation of a Class for a Lesson in Literature’, The Pedagogical Seminary, 15, 1908, 484-491. The Pedagogical Seminary, 15, 1908.
• Sampson, George: ‘Literature in the Classroom’, Essays and Studies XX (1934), 123-134.

• Yearbooks of the National Society for the Study of Education

Shakespeare

• Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet, London, 1597.
• Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet, London, 1599.
• Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet, London, 1609.
• Shakespeare, William: Romeo and Juliet, London, 1622.
• Shakespeare, William: Shake-Speares Sonnets, London, 1609.

Theory and Criticism

• Bourdieu, Pirre : ‘Elemente zu einer soziologischen Theorie der Kunstwahrnehmung’, Zur Soziologie der symbolischen Formen 159-201.
• Hunter, Ian: ‘Leaning the Literature Lesson: The Limits of the Aesthetic Personality’, Towards a Critical Sociology of Teaching Pedagogy Ed. Carolyn D. Baker, Allan Luke, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 1991, 49-82.

Didactical Examples

• Assistant text for Higher Education Teachers, online addition to: Chambers, Ellie; Gregory, Marshall: Teaching & Learning Literature, London: Sage, 2006.