2009 AM Literature and the School System

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09.04.09

Introduction. Technicalities.

- Past vs. present Perpectives

- Academic vs. Pedagogical Perspectives

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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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