Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis looks at the range of different crises currently affecting students - from climate change and systemic racism, to the global pandemic. Addressing the impact on students' ability and motivation to learn as well as their emotional well-being, this volume guides teachers toward strategies for introducing both canonical and contemporary literature in ways that demonstrate the future relevance of sophisticated and targeted literacy skills. These reading practices are invaluable for framing and critically examining the challenges associated with crisis to help cope with grief and as a means to impart the skills needed to deal with crisis such as adaptability, flexibility, resilience and resistance Providing necessary background theory, alongside practical case studies, the book addresses: - Reading practices for demonstrating how literature explores ethical issues in specific and concrete rather than abstract terms - Making connections between disparate phenomena, and how literature mobilises affect in individual and collective human lives - Supporting teachers in considering new, imaginative ways students can learn from literary content and form in online or remote learning environments as well as face to face - Combining close and distant reading with creative and hands-on strategies, presenting the principles of a transitional pedagogy for a world in flux. This book introduces teachers to methods for reading and studying literature with the aim of strengthening and promoting resilience and resourcefulness in and out of the literature classroom to empower students as global citizens with local roles to play.

Book Information
ISBN 9780367638016
Author Sofia Ahlberg
Format Hardback
Page Count 136
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 156g