by admin | Apr 22, 2016 | Fiction, Teaching library, Twentieth century literature, Victorian literature |
Edited by Ailsa Cox Print Pub Date: April 2011 Online Date: April 2011 Overview The short story is moving from relative neglect to a more central position in the literary curriculum. As a teaching tool, its accessibility offers students a route into many complex...
by admin | Apr 22, 2016 | Fiction, Teaching library, Victorian literature |
Edited by Jennifer Phegley and Andrew Maunder Print Pub Date: February 2010 Online Date: July 2010 Overview This collection examines what is taught in nineteenth-century fiction courses in the light of the constantly changing canon; indicates how key critical...
by admin | Jan 23, 2016 | E-Learning, Old English literature, Victorian literature |
Project Summary Project Title: Blended Learning with E-Resources (EEBO, ECCO, JSTOR*) *EEBO (Early English Books Online – digitised images of printed books from 1473 to 1700 – available under a JISC licence); ECCO (Eighteenth-Century Collections Online –...
by admin | Jan 22, 2016 | Pedagogic research, Student experience, Student portfolios, Victorian literature |
Summary ‘I don’t think I will ever read a book again in the way I did before!’ What do we ‘do’ when studying Literature? What learning processes take place? Undergraduate Educational Studies students have been finding out in a module that explores the nature of...
by admin | Jan 22, 2016 | Conrad, Oral communication skills, Seminar teaching, Victorian literature |
Author Stella Bolaki English Literature, University of Edinburgh Summary Second-year English literature students were invited to debate the question of racism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in the light of Chinua Achebe’s well-known denunciation of Conrad in his...
by admin | Jan 22, 2016 | E-Learning, Victorian literature |
Author Matthew Rubery University of Leeds Summary This case study reports on a recent pedagogical initiative making use of podcasting technology in the classroom. The project involved getting students to create their own ‘talking book’ or audiobook recording of a...
