This paper primarily aims at conceptualizing a new philosophical approach to literature education, one that we--in the vein of certain pedagogical trends--propose to call "thing-centered". Point of departure is the ongoing confrontation with a two-sided educational problem: on the one hand, the confrontation with the steady decline of…

While immersive technology has migrated from specialized industry use to wholesale classroom applications, high school student reading of classical literature in secondary English classrooms has declined. At the start of the 2020s American education's dependence on technology increased as a necessary institutional response to the COVID-19…

Although teaching Shakespeare in Turkey naturally creates barriers of language, space and time, the use of digital humanities helped me to overcome these obstacles. My experiences at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey, showed me that combining conventional methods of teaching Shakespeare in Turkey with digital tools helps to familiarise students…

Digital editions of Shakespeare plays are promising tools to support student engagement in sophisticated reading, evidence-based analysis, and meaningful creative productions. One such complex digital text is the e-book series "WordPlay" Shakespeare. In this study, American secondary English Language Arts teachers used these e-books to…

The Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A, http://a-s-i-a-web.org) is a digital collection of East / Southeast Asian Shakespeare performances, containing full-length video-recordings, scripts, and data translated between English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean in parallel language interfaces. In conversation with Roweena Yip, I examine…

The recent abundance of film adaptations and stage productions of Shakespearean drama as well as of digital platforms offering access to texts and to scholarly resources may impact the teaching of Shakespeare's plays significantly, especially for learners geographically remote from traditional centres of Shakespeare studies and from live…

The article is devoted to the problems of moral education of students through the ethical conversations at the seminars of the course "history of Tatar literature". On the example of several classical works, firstly, the educational potential of literature is shown, and secondly, the effectiveness of ethical conversations and the system…

This action research study evaluated a problem of practice which emerged from the apathy and passive responses of students to reading classic literature in the high school English classroom. Teachers instructed while students received information with little investment on their part. The purpose of this study was to determine how to help students…

If the average teenager was asked how he or she feels about reading ancient poetry, the response would probably be something akin to an eye roll or grunt of disgust. Young students generally have a visceral response to this sort of curriculum decision; it makes them shudder. One of the biggest challenges facing English teachers is to connect…

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) is the most prominent figure in contemporary philosophical and literary debate. He originates a trend-breaking theory of deconstruction. He opines the persistence in west European philosophical tradition of what he labels is logocentric metaphysics of presence. He argues that the different theories of philosophy, from…

This article discusses how literacy and literature goals merged in a media project designed to encourage high school students to build new connections with the poetic elements of Shakespeare's plays "Romeo and Juliet" and "Julius Caesar." Using the free software Animoto movie maker, students were challenged to look closely at…

Examines community college students' choices of favorite works after a one-year composition and literature course. Finds "Antigone" was the favorite. Claims Greek classical works put students in contact with a distant culture that they find intriguing. Suggests juxtaposing a classical work with one from another time and culture to avoid…

Discusses the history and evolution of censorship and how different publishers have censored textbooks and literature anthologies in order not to appease certain groups. (SRT)

Comments on the anachronism of studying classical literature in English classes. Laments the uncertain future of classical literature in the English curriculum. (RL)