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Manning, Patrick – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2021
Current trends in disaffiliation and declining enrollment in Catholic schools raise difficult questions about the perceived value of Catholic education and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT). Following the work of theologian David Tracy, the author makes a case for engagement with Christian "classics" as a promising means not only…
Descriptors: Christianity, Catholics, Classics (Literature), Declining Enrollment
Smith, Ann Kowal – Liberal Education, 2019
At the Philadelphia-area manufacturer GGBearings, employees representing every corner of the plant--from the company president to machinists, engineers, and finance staff members--have assembled in the conference room. The balanced mix of men and women varies in age, race, and background. Some are in uniform, others in business-casual dress. A few…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Clubs, Employees, Workplace Learning
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Sandberg, Magnus H.; Silseth, Kenneth – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021
Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt" digs deep into the question of what it means to be oneself. An upcoming computer game version invites players to take on the role of Peer and thereby raises new questions about identity and identification. By recording dyads of students who play an early version of the game and analysing their interaction…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Classics (Literature), Educational Games, Role Playing
Higinbotham, Sarah; Hardy, Jack; Nachman, Brett Ranon – Liberal Education, 2021
Three academics reflect on how to stay positive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Sarah Higginbotham finds that some of her most heartening experiences during this time have been while enacting unrehearsed Zoom Shakespeare plays with colleagues and students. She usually experiences telepresence events as rather flattened interactions, while insulated…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Coping, Positive Attitudes
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Kiziltan, Nalan; Ayar, Zülal – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The impetus behind the development of this research is to study the potential influence(s) of cartoons (caricatures) on L2 learners in terms of gaining cultural awareness and enhancing their motivation levels. To that end, three English classics in the form of cartoons, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Romeo & Juliet by William…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Classics (Literature), Foreign Countries
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Yandell, John; Coles, Jane; Bryer, Theo – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
Every year since 2007, the Globe Theatre has run the "Playing Shakespeare" project, largely funded by Deutsche Bank. This has three main components: school-based workshops, CPD sessions for teachers and free performances for school students. From 2014 to 2016, we were commissioned to evaluate this project. In what follows, we reflect on…
Descriptors: Drama, Reflection, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation
Abel, Jessica Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As a novel that asks how we can live in a world of uncertain values and urgent identity politics, James Joyce's Ulysses could be more relevant than ever, but its textual complexity poses a steep burden to new readers. Teaching Joyce's Ulysses models a new method of teaching Joyce's novel using the theory of fictional possible worlds, which…
Descriptors: Novels, Classics (Literature), Literature Appreciation, Teaching Methods
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Gilbert, Francis Jonathan; Pitfield, Margaret – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2019
Purpose: This paper focuses on the affordances of and issues surrounding the teaching of George Orwell's novel "1984" (1949) as a set text for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) English and English Literature in an examination-obsessed and heavily surveilled school system. It considers this by focussing on the classroom…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), School Culture, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Sabitova, Aigul; Salimova, Daniya; Ibragimova, Elmira – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2018
The paper presents the results of the research in the framework of the current trends in linguistics--text linguistics and stylistics. Now that the concept of the language norm is blurred to some extent due to the strong phenomena in language and speech dynamics, the language of texts for children should be treated with special attention and care,…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Books, Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries
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Jiaye Wu; Nicola McLelland; Sarah Dauncey – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Despite growing attention paid to the language ideologies of teachers as actors in bilingualism or multilingualism studies, little research has examined whether and how power dynamics between majority and minority languages play a role in the promulgation of a majority language to ethnic minority learners of that majority language. This paper…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Mandarin Chinese, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes
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Del Nero, Jennifer – Reading Improvement, 2019
This conceptual article explores early adolescent students' responses to an experimental Gothic reading unit (including popular culture and traditional texts). The Gothic genre was selected due to both its prevalence in youth culture and lack of representation in reading classrooms. This hybrid curriculum increased academic reading engagement in…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Adolescent Literature, Classics (Literature), Reading Instruction
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Chang, Mary K. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2020
Normative notions that classical Chinese texts support authoritarian practices eclipse the possibility that the texts can become contemporary educational resources. Oriented by a conception of relationality, the research engages a Foucauldian approach to writing history as genealogy to argue that the political use of the so-called Confucian texts…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classics (Literature), Asian Culture, Confucianism
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Wang, Canglong – Chinese Education & Society, 2020
This article explores the conceptualization of cosmopolitan citizen and the relevant teaching practice in the emerging Confucian classical education in contemporary China. It addresses two aspects. First, the cosmopolitan orientation of the cultural subject constructed in the theory of classics-reading education is embedded in the presupposition…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Nationalism, Case Studies, Asian Culture
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Gilbert, Sky – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2018
Despite opposition to 'queering the text' by established Shakespeare critics, this essay sets out to ponder the possibility of teaching Shakespeare in a queer context. The essay begins by examining the social and sexual conditions of the early modern period, making the observation that there were a wide variety of sexualities, moral attitudes, and…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Rhetoric, Drama, Theater Arts
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Paffenroth, Kim – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2017
This essay draws out the useful parallels between the best kind of teacher and the Good Witch of the North, Glinda, from "The Wizard of Oz." Unappealing to many viewers or readers of the classic children's story, Glinda offers an inspiring reminder of four important pedagogical points: (1) the master teacher always treats her student as…
Descriptors: Teacher Influence, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Student Relationship, Empowerment
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