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Ervin, Jennifer – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2022
Culturally sustaining pedagogy (Paris, 2012) has emerged as an essential way to value the evolution of culture among diverse learners. Discussions around teaching in a culturally sustaining manner in the English language arts classroom, specifically when teaching literary analysis, often address the need to incorporate multicultural literature so…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Spector, Hannah – Prospects, 2021
The purpose of this article is to interrogate ways that curriculum can respond critically to already existing global emergencies (including pandemics) while also becoming more proactive toward the prevention of world risks. To do this, it calls for the fortification of the traditional course of study that introduces students to the analysis of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, World Problems, Risk
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Gordon, John – English in Education, 2018
School examinations of student responses to literature often present poetry blind or "unseen", inviting decontextualised close reading consistent with the orientation-to-text associated with Practical Criticism (originating in the UK) and New Criticism (originating in the USA). The approach survives in the UK after curricular reforms and…
Descriptors: Cultural Literacy, Prior Learning, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Squire, James R. – 1969
This review of research summarizes major studies in the teaching of literature in the following areas: the history of literary instruction and attitudes toward teaching literature in the United States, the objectives of English literature instruction, curriculum experimentation and innovation, instructional procedures, juvenile and adolescent…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Research, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Bone, Robert – Engl J., 1969
Paper presented at Annual Convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Milwaukee, Wis., November 28-30, 1968).
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Literature, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum
McKenna, Teresa – ADE Bulletin, 1988
Reviews the literary forms and trends of Chicano literature. Discusses the growing critical canon accompanying the development of this literature, and describes pedagogical approaches to courses and curriculum planning in this area. (SR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Hispanic American Literature, Immigrants
Sloan, Glenna Davis – 1972
This study explores the proposition that literary criticism may be an important part of the elementary school curriculum and that its practice can be informed by the theories of Northrop Frye. The study is in three parts. The first chapter of Part I argues that there is virtually no emphasis in the elementary school on the study of literature as…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary School Curriculum, Imagination, Literacy
Margon, Joseph S. – Cl World, 1970
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Curriculum Development, Formal Criticism, Greek Literature
Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). – 1972
This progress report of the curriculum development project aimed at the study of Canada's urban areas through examination of Canadian writings covers the project's first two years. The initial proposal and early planning is reported in ED 055 010. The primary difficulties, after the formation of the team, entailed acquiring release time, arranging…
Descriptors: Canadian Literature, Curriculum Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literary Criticism
Purves, Alan C. – 1989
The role of literature in education is examined, and implications for assessment of student understanding of literature are outlined. There are three distinct views of the role of literature in school. Literature is variously construed as an adjunct to the learning of reading and writing, as a subject with its own body of knowledge, and as an…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Figurative Language
Cianciolo, Patricia J.; Van Camp, Mary Ellen – 1991
This paper reports findings from a detailed critical analysis of commonly used curriculum materials and assessment devices for the study of literature in kindergarten through sixth grade. The paper provides descriptive information and suggestions for improved design and use of curricula available to classroom teachers, especially with respect to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Course Content, Critical Reading, Curriculum Development
Arenella, Anthony; And Others – 1967
Studying the structural nature of a literary work was considered by a Harvard Graduate School of Education seminar as a rational, nonsubjective basis for a literature curriculum in the elementary grades. Russian formalist criticism was used as a basic approach to the study of literature, and Vladimir Propp's approach to the folktale was used as an…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Experimental Teaching, Literary Criticism
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Stott, Jon C. – Children's Literature in Education, 1987
Suggests that children, even in early elementary grades, can grasp basic elements of children's literature using a spiralled sequence story curriculum, which helps them examine types of character, such as the trickster; elements of plot, such as the journey; and generally see patterns in the stories they read. (JC)
Descriptors: Characterization, Childrens Literature, Critical Reading, Curriculum Development
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Muller-Michaels, Harro – European Education, 1991
Compares the teaching of literature in East and West Germany. Discusses both the nature and titles of the material taught and problems of teaching literature espousing individual thought and criticism in a communist system. Describes common ground in the literature curriculum of both that may serve as a basis for curriculum of unified Germany. (DK)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Probst, Robert E. – English Journal, 1987
Considers what literature does, its role in a child's education, and how it might be taught. Advocates the use of adolescent literature in the classroom. (NKA)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescent Literature, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development
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