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Area 6: Illuminating the Future of Teaching Literature: Research and Theory into Practice
Wed, December 4, 10:15 to 11:45am, Tampa Marriott Water Street, Florida Salon IIISession Submission Type: Symposium
Abstract
The symposium brings together four scholars of research on and theoretical exploration of literature instruction in contemporary classrooms. The critical examination of mass incarceration, language experience and character relations, literature and identity construction, and (re)storying of canonical texts will be discussed. Symposium participants will be invited to respond to each of the presentations as well as discuss their own perspectives on the future of literature pedagogy, both theoretically and pragmatically.
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Individual Presentations
Critical Literary Theory and Mass Incarceration: Shared Inquiry in Urban Classrooms - Deborah Appleman, Carleton College
High School Students Connecting Language Experiences Constituting Relations with Characters’ Relations - Richard W Beach, University of Minnesota
Beyond Windows and Mirrors: Literature, the Self, and the Other - Bob Fecho, Teachers College, Columbia University
(Re)storying Canonical Texts: Youths’ Critical Art-Making Practices and Productively Disruptive Interpretations of Fahrenheit 451 - Rob Simon, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of The University of Toronto; Ashleigh Allen, University of Toronto/OISE:; Doug Friesen, University of Toronto/OISE:; Ben Gallagher, University of Toronto/OISE:; Ty Walkland, University of Toronto/OISE: