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Landau Wright, Katherine; Thomas, Matthew – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2019
A conversation between scholars demonstrates how two experts found common ground and made classroom recommendations while wrestling through an underlying question: Who cares about "The Grapes of Wrath?"
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Culturally Relevant Education, Reading Material Selection, Literature
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Rachel Jackson – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2018
This paper reports on findings from the author's Masters of Education project in which Classics as an after-school curriculum enhancement programme was offered to Year 9 pupils (aged 13-14) in a maintained school in Salford. The programme also incorporated excursions to supplement the extracurricular lessons delivered by the researcher (a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Curriculum Enrichment, English Teachers
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Syed, Ghazal Kazim; Panhwar, Manzoor-ul-Mustafa – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2020
Teaching literature through new techniques and judging its relevance in terms of students' perceptions in an under-researched and significant area of study. This study aims to explore students' response to new teaching methodologies being used in a literature classroom, as part of an international research project. This international project was a…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Student Attitudes, Classics (Literature), Teaching Methods
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Yaqiong, Lin – Chinese Education & Society, 2019
The construction of knowledge boundaries is an important mechanism in the formation of disciplines. This article examines and analyzes boundary strategies and difficulties in the institutionalization of "guoxue" ("national studies" or "Chinese classics") as a discipline in recent years from the perspective of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classics (Literature), Intellectual Disciplines, Political Attitudes
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Persulessy, Sylvia Irene; Emzir; Rahmat, Aceng – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The objective of this research is to acquire deep understanding about social values in the novels "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens. The type of research was qualitative by using content analysis method. The data collected through document study and data observation about social values in the novel. The result of this research revealed…
Descriptors: Social Values, Novels, Classics (Literature), Content Analysis
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Lopez de Aguileta, Garazi – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Research in the field of educational linguistics has found that low levels of academic language development negatively affect children's language, reading and writing skills and, therefore, academic achievements. This is more noticeable in students from low SES backgrounds, who traditionally have a lower exposure to academic language.…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Literacy, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills
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Tyler Sasser, M. – Children's Literature in Education, 2016
Historical fiction has long been a staple in the social studies, history, and English curricula of primary and secondary education. Such commercial and critical successes might be linked to the genre's unique ability to blend educational, didactic, historical, and aesthetic concerns in children's literature, aspects that are heightened…
Descriptors: History, Fiction, Classics (Literature), Childrens Literature
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Peng, Xiaojuan – English Language Teaching, 2021
In view of the complicated translation cognitive process, the study investigated and compared students' translation process of Chinese Classics through translation thinking path schema. Seventy-six participants learning translation courses based on parallel level in two classes of one Chinese university, some of them trained for four months…
Descriptors: Translation, Protocol Analysis, Video Technology, Poetry
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Barrington, Candace – Educational Theory, 2014
Through the comparative study of non-Anglophone translations of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales," we can achieve the progressive goals of Emily Apter's "translational transnationalism" and Edward Said's "cosmopolitan humanism." Both translation and humanism were intrinsic to Chaucer's…
Descriptors: Translation, Classics (Literature), Humanism, Comparative Analysis
Bushnell, Adam, Ed.; Gill, Angela, Ed.; Waugh, David, Ed.; Smith, Rob, Ed. – SAGE Publications Ltd (UK), 2020
How do teachers identify the potential for greater depth writing and encourage children to meet their full potential? This book was created by people who are not only passionate about primary education, but who are also leading experts in their own particular areas. They have made use of their wide experience to offer practical guidance on greater…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Teachers
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Deidre Faughey – English Journal, 2020
The author pushes two desks together in the front of the class and pile supplies on them: markers, drawing paper, rulers, and pencils. As the students enter a combined English language arts (ELA) and English as a New Language (ENL) tenth-grade classroom, they select what they need and settle in to their work. As an ELA educator who is also a…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Teaching Methods, Grade 10, High Schools
Bambrick-Santoyo, Paul – Educational Leadership, 2016
Write first, talk second--it's a simple strategy, but one that's underused in literature classes, writes Paul Bambrick-Santoyo. The author describes a lesson on Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 conducted by a middle school English teacher, who incorporates writing as an important precursor to classroom discussion. By having students write about the poem…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Middle School Teachers, Language Arts, Writing Assignments
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Asl, Moussa Pourya – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2014
Attempts to present a rational explanation of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" have been a growing concern since its publication in 1847. The abundant, yet incoherent, interpretations of "Wuthering Heights," make the need for this research timely. This article focuses on ways to achieve a truer and more rational…
Descriptors: Neurosis, Classics (Literature), Novels, English Literature
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Shelton, Stephanie Anne – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2018
Based on a 1-year interview-based case study of a preservice English teacher, this article considers the limitations of both intersectional literacies and reader-based responses to texts. In an effort to address students' problematic discussions of female sexuality, the participant implemented a queer pedagogy that emphasized alterity, or the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English Teachers, Literacy, Reader Response
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Zhong, Zhenshan; Sun, Mengyao – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
The power of general education curriculum comes from the enduring classics. The authors apply research methods such as questionnaire survey, interview, and observation to investigate the state of general education curriculum implementation at N University and analyze problems faced by incorporating classics. Based on this, the authors propose that…
Descriptors: General Education, Integrated Curriculum, Questionnaires, Observation
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