Learning Literature in an Era of Change

by Hickey, Dona J.

• ISBN13: 9781579220181
• ISBN10: 1579220185
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

This book presents a range of teaching strategies developed by teachers of literature who have heard the call from students, employers, and academic administrators for more relevant learning experiences in an ever-changing world. Integrating critical theory and classroom experience, the contributors to this book demonstrate how they foster learning, collaboration and cooperation, and creative thinking. The book abounds with descriptions of successful non-traditional teaching strategies. We see teachers collaborating across disciplines and across colleges, in some cases across countries and grade levels, and demystifying literary studies for students brought up on visual media. Many of the contributors lead their campuses in the use of computer-mediated communication and multimedia to support instruction. The chapters exemplify the shift from understanding teaching as "making students see what the teacher sees," to inviting them to engage texts together, as a community, and to learn how, with their teacher, knowledge and authority are culturally and socially constructed. In Learning Literature in an Era of Change practicing teachers offer their peers in literature and composition, and faculty developers, an exciting range of new models where professors are partners in learning, and where education is not delivered but discovered and disseminated.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Kenneth Bruffee
Acknowledgments	xiv
Introduction: Innovation, Instruction, and Literary Studies	xv
Dona J. Hickey
Donna Reiss
PART ONE. LITERARY LICENSE: ALTERNATIVE READINGS AND WRITINGS
Wingdams: Piloting New Channels in Writing About Literature	3	(15)
Katherine M. Fischer
Epistolary Pedagogy and Electronic Mail: Online Letters for Learning Literature	18	(13)
Donna Reiss
On Teaching Literature Students to Interpret: The Textual ``Gap'' as Point of Departure	31	(7)
Ronda Leathers Dively
Generative Criticism in the Seminar Room: Applying Lateral Thinking to the Study of Literary Theory	38	(12)
Barry Lewis
Exploration and Discovery in the Undergraduate Survey of Literature: The Poster Presentation	50	(4)
Marie-Madeleine Schein
Permeable Boundaries: Arts Within the Arts	54	(7)
Dona J. Hickey
PART TWO. VISUAL LITERACY AND VISUALIZING LITERATURE
Figuring Literary Theory and Refiguring Teaching: Graphics in the Undergraduate Literary Theory Course	61	(13)
Marlowe A. Miller
From Short Fiction to Dramatic Event: Mental Imagery, The Perceptual Basis of Learning in the Aesthetic Reading Experience	74	(13)
Terri Pullen Guezzar
The Look of a Book: Using Technology to Visualize Narrative Structure	87	(3)
Joy Castro
Sculpting the Text	90	(9)
Nancy Macky
Frederick Horn
PART THREE. LEARNING LITERATURE THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS
Alchemy to Chemistry: Integrating Science and Humanities	99	(14)
Sandy Feinstein
Theme Days: Literature Across the Curriculum	113	(14)
Sylvia Hodges Gamboa
PART FOUR. CYBERLIT: HYPERTEXT, HYPERMEDIA, AND MULTIMEDIA
Project-Based Literary Instruction: The Women of the Romantic Period Hypertext	127	(10)
Daniel Anderson
Hypermedia Design in the English Classroom	137	(15)
Tonya Browning
Hypertextual and Networked Communication in Undergraduate Literature Classes: Strategies for an Interactive Critical Pedagogy	152	(16)
Marcel Cornis-Pope
Linear Modeling: Giving Technology's Power to Students	168	(13)
Peter Havholm
Larry Stewart
Shakespeare Online: Reflections on Teaching and Learning	181	(12)
Helen J. Schwartz
Brian C. McDonald
Videos and the Virtual Classroom: A Teleweb for Teaching Modern American Poetry	193	(4)
Gail Summerskill Cummins
Contributors	197	(6)
Resource Index	203	(4)
Index	207