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Teaching Literature: Text and Dialogue in the English Classroom
Ben Knights (Ed.)
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Description for Teaching Literature: Text and Dialogue in the English Classroom
Paperback. Editor(s): Knights, Ben. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNMT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book comprises reflections by experienced scholar teachers on the principles and practice of higher education English teaching. In approaching the subject from different angles it aims to spark insights and to foster imaginative teaching. In the era of audit, and the Teaching Excellence Framework it invites teachers to return to the sources of their own teaching knowledge. The shift from a student-centred to a research-centred paradigm has particular implications for a discipline which prides itself on its teaching, and has always had teaching and dialogue at its heart. One which also talks across the tertiary / secondary border to ... Read more
This book comprises reflections by experienced scholar teachers on the principles and practice of higher education English teaching. In approaching the subject from different angles it aims to spark insights and to foster imaginative teaching. In the era of audit, and the Teaching Excellence Framework it invites teachers to return to the sources of their own teaching knowledge. The shift from a student-centred to a research-centred paradigm has particular implications for a discipline which prides itself on its teaching, and has always had teaching and dialogue at its heart. One which also talks across the tertiary / secondary border to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Teaching the New English
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137311085
SKU
V9781137311085
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Ref
99-15
About Ben Knights (Ed.)
Ben Knights is Emeritus Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Teesside, UK. Until 2011 he was Director of the UK national English Subject Centre (HEA). A graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, his books include Writing Masculinities: Male Narratives in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Palgrave), From Reader to Reader: Theory, Text and Practice in the Study ... Read more
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