Towards Transformative Literature Pedagogy

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-86821-913-5
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 279 g

Reihe: Diversitätsorientierte Literatur-, Kultur- und Sprachdidaktik

By inquiring into the transformative potential of literary writing and reading as well as the notion of transformative learning itself, this book explores the cultural dimensions of environmental change and underlines the importance of teaching English literature in this context. It shows that despite the popularity of the transformative in policy documents, curricula and research on subject-specific pedagogies, we are still only at the beginning of understanding the potential of literature when it comes to transformative, inclusive and sustainable education. Presenting research findings and teaching methodologies that probe into the potential of global and transcultural learning, inclusive education, and interdisciplinary takes on transformative education from hermeneutic as well as empirical vantage points, it offers orientation and inspiration for educators equally interested in transformative change and the specific affordances of fiction.

Table of Contents
ROMAN BARTOSCH

In 'Interesting Times':

Classroom Diversity and the Great Transformation ...................................... 1

Teaching Transformation: Affect, Agency, Ambiguity, and Scale
JÜRGEN WEHRMANN

Facing the Posthuman Horizon: Global Education and

Teaching Science Fiction in the EFL Classroom ........................................... 15


MAREIKE TÖDTER

The Political in Sustainable Matters: A Case for Controversy

and Plurality in the EFL Classroom ............................................................... 39


SVENJA ROSENAU

Tolerance of Ambiguity and Sustainability-Related

Competencies in the EFL Classroom ............................................................ 65


ROMAN BARTOSCH

Scaling Crises: Theories, Tasks and Topics for

Transformative Sustainability Education in English ..................................... 77

Reading Transformation: From Early English to Higher Education
CHRISTIAN LUDWIG & FRANK ERIK POINTNER

"Where were you when the sky cracked open?" –

Responses to Hurricane Katrina in Popular Culture ...................................... 93


CLAUDIA DEETJEN

Teaching Young Adult Climate Change Fiction

in the EFL Classroom: Saci Lloyd’s
The Carbon Diaries 2015/2017
........... 107


CHRISTIANE HANSEN

Fictions of Disaster: Climate Change and the Imaginary

in a Framework of Transformative Literacy .................................................. 125


MARTA JANACHOWSKA-BUDYCH

Education for Sustainable Development

with Texts of Migration Literature:

A Case Study in German-Polish Educational Context ................................... 143


Notes on Contributors ................................................................................... 159

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartosch, Roman

Über Autor(innen)

Bartosch, Roman
Roman Bartosch is Associate Professor of Teaching Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Teaching in the Humanities at the University of Cologne, Germany.