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Founded in 2002, the International Society for Language Studies is a worldwide organization of volunteers, scholars, and practitioners committed to critical, interdisciplinary, and emergent approaches to language studies. Its eighth volume of the Readings in Language Studies series, Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning, and Society, presents international perspectives on issues of language related to a variety of themes.

Language Arts --- Language Experience Approach In Education --- Education --- Language arts. --- Literature--Study and teaching.

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Literary Praxis: A Conversational Inquiry into the Teaching of Literature explores the teaching of literature in secondary schools. It does this from the vantage point of educators in a range of settings around the world, as they engage in dialogue with one another in order to capture the nature of their professional commitment, the knowledge they bring to their work as literature teachers, and the challenges of their professional practice as they interact with their students. The core of the book comprises accounts of their day-to-day teaching by Dutch and Australian educators. These teachers do more than capture the immediacy of the here-and-now of their classrooms; they attempt to understand those classrooms relationally, exploring the ways in which their professional practice is mediated by government policies, national literary traditions and existing traditions of curriculum and pedagogy. They thereby enact a form of literary ‘praxis’ that grapples with major ideological issues, most notably the impact of standards-based reforms on their work. Educators from other countries then comment on the cases written by the Dutch and Australian teachers, thus taking the concept of ‘praxis’ to a new level, as part of a comparative inquiry that acknowledges the richly specific character of the cases and resists viewing teaching around the world as though it lends itself unproblematically to the same standards of measurement (as in the fetish made of PISA). They step back from a judgmental stance, and try to understand what it means to teach literature in other educational settings than their own. The essays in this collection show the complexities of literature teaching as a form of professional praxis, exploring the intensely reflexive learning in which teachers engage, as they induct their students into reading literary texts, and reflect on the socio-cultural contexts of their work.

Literature -- Study and teaching -- Australia. --- Literature -- Study and teaching -- Netherlands. --- Literature -- Study and teaching. --- Languages & Literatures --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Literature - General --- Education, Special Topics --- Literature --- Study and teaching --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Education. --- Literacy. --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Illiteracy --- General education --- Study and teaching. --- Literature, Modern --- Language arts

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Young Adult literature, from The Outsiders to Harry Potter, has helped shape the cultural landscape for adolescents perhaps more than any other form of consumable media in the twentieth and twenty-first century. With the rise of mega blockbuster films based on these books in recent years, the young adult genre is being co-opted by curious adult readers and by Hollywood producers. However, while the genre may be getting more readers than ever before, Young Adult literature remains exclusionary and problematic: few titles feature historically marginalized individuals, the books present heteronormative perspectives, and gender stereotypes continue to persist. Taking a critical approach, Young Adult Literature: Challenging Genres offers educators, youth librarians, and students a set of strategies for unpacking, challenging, and transforming the assumptions of some of the genre's most popular titles. Pushing the genre forward, Antero Garcia builds on his experiences as a former high school teacher to offer strategies for integrating Young Adult literature in a contemporary critical pedagogy through the use of participatory media.

Children’s literature --Study and teaching (Elementary). --- Young adult literature -- History and criticism. --- Young adult literature -- Study and teaching. --- Education --- Languages & Literatures --- Social Sciences --- Literature - General --- Education - General --- Young adult literature --- History and criticism. --- Education. --- Education, general. --- Young adults --- Books and reading. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Young adult literature. --- Books for teenagers --- Teenage literature --- YA literature --- Young adult books --- Literature

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Les écrivains pour la jeunesse sont-ils des auteurs à part entière, ainsi que certains d'entre eux le réclament publiquement ? Près de quarante-cinq ans après les déclarations de R. Barthes sur "la mort de l'auteur", une telle revendication trouve, bien sûr, son origine dans le décalage entre la légitimité encore fluctuante de ce secteur de l'édition et son dynamisme reconnu. Mais l'affirmation naît peut-être aussi d'un retour progressif de l'auteur dans la réflexion théorique et critique, ou bien encore de sa présence diversifiée dans les pratiques scolaires de lecture de la litterature. S'interrogeant sur la situation complexe d'aujourd'hui, les quinze contributeurs de l'ouvrage questionnent la notion d'auteur pour la jeunesse dans différentes directions, à partir des approches variées qui ont construit la réflexion sur l'auctoralité. Pour ce faire, ils mettent en pleine lumière romans et albums, de C. Grenier, S. Morgenstern, B. Poncelet, G. Lemoine, Sara et quelques autres contemporains. Pour esquisser une mise en perspective historique, ils se tournent aussi du côté d'Homère, P.-J. Hetzel, P. Berna, ainsi que des très récents N. Schneegans et D. Pennac. De l'édition à l'école, certaines pratiques culturelles sont ainsi sondées avec précision. Même si elle ne paraît pas appelée à prendre la première place, au détriment des autres instances de la littérature, il semble bien que la notion d'auteur pour la jeunesse présente un intérêt certain dans les activités de lecture littéraire. L'ouvrage suggère ainsi une clarification des rôles que l'on peut faire jouer à cette figure de premier plan.

Children's literature --- Children's literature, French --- Authorship --- Publishing --- Study and teaching (Elementary) --- History and criticism --- Juvenile literature --- Literature --- Children's literature - Authorship --- Children's literature - Publishing - France --- Children's literature - Study and teaching (Elementary) - France --- Children's literature, French - History and criticism --- Authorship. --- History and criticism. --- écrivain --- XXème siècle --- littérature jeunesse --- littérature --- édition --- France --- enseignement primaire

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"The essays in this volume explore facets of ongoing research into the interplay of history, fiction, and narrative in ancient Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian texts. Particular attention is given to the way in which ancient authors in a variety of genre and cultural settings employ a range of narrative strategies to reflect on pressing contemporary issues, shape community identity, or provide moral and educational guidance for their readers. This volume, the third in a series of volumes of collected papers emerging from the work of the "Ancient Fictions and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative" section of the Society for Biblical Literature since its formation in 1992, is the first to highlight the growing importance of strategies to integrate the fruits of this research into the university classroom and beyond" --

Classical literature --- Apocryphal books --- Civilization, Ancient, in literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Language arts --- History and criticism. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Study and teaching. --- Study and teaching --- History and criticism --- Apocryphal books. --- Classical literature. --- Classical literature - History and criticism. --- Apocryphal books - Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Literature - Study and teaching.