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Schinkel, Anders – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2011
The aim of this article is twofold. Against the traditional interpretation of "the conscience of Huckleberry Finn" (for which Jonathan Bennett's article with this title is the locus classicus) as a conflict between conscience and sympathy, I propose a new interpretation of Huck's inner conflict, in terms of Huck's mastery of (the) moral language…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Conflict, Moral Values, Values Education
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Cohen, Robert; Pearson, Janelle – Social Education, 2011
A key working assumption of English teachers at the Essex Street Academy, a public high school on Manhattan's Lower East Side (and a partner school of New York University) is that literature can be taught most effectively when it is placed into historical context. Historical knowledge can help students who struggle with classic literature and find…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Slavery, Literature Appreciation, English Teachers
Penrod, Lynn – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
This article focuses on a typical law and literature jurisprudence seminar and the use of literary texts in this type of class to foster the development of "ethical sentiments" in future legal practitioners. While the majority of jurisprudence courses within a standard law curriculum tend to use political theory, philosophical, or socio-cultural…
Descriptors: Law Students, Seminars, Ethics, Lawyers
Campbell, Heather M. – School Library Journal, 2010
Steam-powered machines, anachronistic technology, clockwork automatons, gas-filled airships, tentacled monsters, fob watches, and top hats--these are all elements of steampunk. Steampunk is both speculative fiction that imagines technology evolved from steam-powered cogs and gears--instead of from electricity and computers--and a movement that…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Fiction, Nonfiction, Books
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Sardone, Nancy B. – English Journal, 2012
This article describes the assignments the author created to engage preservice teachers in designing instructional materials that befit today's students to help them overcome hurdles sometimes present when learning classic literature. Secondary and middle school English teachers may find these assignments useful as well so their students, too,…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Assignments, Classics (Literature), English Instruction
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Russell, Jennifer; Beavis, Catherine – English in Australia, 2012
Contemporary curriculum guidelines, such as those provided in the incoming Australian curriculum, call for English to attend to multimodal forms of text and literacy as well as more traditional forms. Students are expected to become capable and critical readers, users and creators of texts and forms of literacy that span everything from newspapers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Guides, Learning Modalities, Multimedia Instruction
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Bright, Amy – Journal of Children's Literature, 2011
When readers of contemporary adolescent literature are encouraged to participate in conversations about what is considered canonical literature, the literary value of adolescent reading expands past narrowly defined borders. Several recent adolescent novels provide access to the classics and may generate interest among middle school students in…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Young Adults, Novels, Classification
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Pallas, Aaron M. – Educational Leadership, 2012
Critics of the public release of teacher evaluation scores sometimes liken these ratings to the scarlet letter worn by Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel. The comparison is apt. But public school teachers who are subjected to public shaming because of their students' test scores can rarely expect the opportunities for redemption…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public School Teachers, Classics (Literature), Public Education
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Borusiak, Liubov' – Russian Education and Society, 2012
It is acknowledged that the value of reading has gone down in today's Russian society, and this is rated as unequivocally negative. Instead of "the most well-read country in the world," Russia is now called a "society of TV viewers" by the some observers; it is not a nation of independent thinkers but passive objects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Intellectual Experience, Cultural Maintenance
Wright, Trevor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Now in its second edition, Trevor Wright's hugely popular "How to be a Brilliant English Teacher" is packed with practical advice drawn from his extensive and successful experience as an English teacher, examiner and teacher trainer. This accessible and readable guide offers sound theoretical principles with exciting practical suggestions for the…
Descriptors: Poetry, Self Help Programs, Teacher Educators, English Teachers
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Barab, Sasha A.; Dodge, Tyler; Ingram-Goble, Adam; Pettyjohn, Patrick; Peppler, Kylie; Volk, Charlene; Solomou, Maria – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2010
Although every era is met with the introduction of powerful technologies for entertainment and learning, videogames represent a new contribution binding the two and bearing the potential to create sustained engagement in a curricular drama where the player's knowledgeable actions shape an unfolding fiction within a designed world. Although…
Descriptors: Video Games, Play, Design, Educational Games
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Tan, Sor-Hoon – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
This response to Zongjie Wu's "Interpretation, autonomy, and interpretation" focuses on the "battle between East and West" which contextualizes Wu's proposal to counter the current Western domination of Chinese pedagogic discourse with an "authentic language" recovered from the Chinese classics. It points out that it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, Confucianism, Cross Cultural Studies
King, Kathleen O'Connell – Online Submission, 2010
Middle school students are socially conditioned through an inundation of messages conveyed by various mediums, and language arts teachers are capable of teaching them how to deconstruct messages through exercises in critical literacy. Many language arts teachers are not aware of critical theory and, if they are aware, rely solely on classic…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Critical Theory, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
Coventon, John, Ed. – Trentham Books Ltd, 2011
"Drama to Inspire" is a timely selection of practice based accounts produced by fifteen workshop leaders and friends of the long established association for teachers of drama, London Drama. Many of the authors are internationally renowned for their work. Each piece affirms the immense potential for dynamic learning that is at the heart…
Descriptors: Drama, Workshops, Learning Experience, Ethics
Clemens, David – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
As documented by multiple NEA studies ("Reading at Risk," 2004; "To Read or Not to Read," 2007), reading has become devalued in American life, on sale in the clearance bin along with notions of greatness, classic works and ideas, and Western civilization itself. Trying to teach fine literature, writes the author, has become the struggle of how to…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Western Civilization, Popular Culture, Literary Criticism
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