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Author Soares, Michael Arthur

Title Teaching with Dystopian Text Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (187 p.)
Series Routledge Research in Literacy Education Series
Routledge Research in Literacy Education Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Urgency of Dystopian Text -- 1. Picture(s) of the Future -- Why Dystopian Text? -- The Defamiliarized Zone -- Big Brother and Critical Analysis -- 2. Grim Visions in the Classroom -- "Fresh Hell" in the Headlines -- Secondary Students and Dystopian Text -- Hyperconnectivity and Surveillance -- Responsibility of the Secondary English Teacher -- 3. Learning from Orwell -- Ode to Las Ramblas -- Why Orwell Wrote -- Catalonia
London and -- Jura -- 4. Orwellian Spaces -- Orwell's Spatial Practices -- Orwellian Spaces and the Secondary Classroom -- Pedagogy of Orwellian Spaces -- Trajectory of Orwellian Spaces -- 5. Critical Selections of Dystopian Texts -- Critical Selection of Text -- Privacy and Surveillance: The Case for -- 1984 in the Classroom -- Other Texts: 1984's Little Brothers and Sisters -- Trajectory: V for Vendetta, Anonymous and Beyond -- Challenges -- 6. Course Design -- Scaffolding Dystopia -- Priming -- Defamiliarization and Orwellian Spaces -- Role of the Teacher -- Power of Critical Theory
Brave New Pedagogy -- 7. A Classroom Story -- Keeping the Lights On -- Lived Spaces -- Research Questions -- Course Design -- Methods and Researcher's Role -- Limitations -- Participants -- Discussion -- Trajectory -- The Defamiliarized Zone Revisited -- Lived/Perceived/Conceived Spaces -- Conclusion -- 8. Dystopian Text During COVID-19 -- The Dilemma -- The Collaboration -- The Collaboration II -- The Remote Possibilities -- 9. Roadmap to the Present: Teaching Dystopian Text in a Dystopian Educational Climate -- Under Siege -- Big Brother is Watching (In the Classroom) -- Let Them Eat Tests
Freedom is Slavery -- Roadmap to the Present Strategy 1: "Demand Autonomy" -- Ignorance is Strength -- Roadmap to the Present Strategy 2: "Acknowledge Orwellian Spaces" -- Roadmap to the Present Strategy 3: "Declare Expertise" -- War is Peace -- Roadmap to the Present Strategy 4: Facilitate Lived/Perceived/Conceived Spaces -- Laboratory for Hope -- Roadmap to the Present Strategy 5: Insist on Critical Analysis -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Research Questions and Unit Plans for Chapter 7: A Classroom Story -- Appendix 2: Dystopian Works Resource List -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Critical pedagogy.
Dystopias in literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Language arts (Secondary)
Literacy -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Motivation in education.
Student participation in curriculum planning.
Critical pedagogy.
Language arts (Secondary)
Literacy -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Motivation in education.
Student participation in curriculum planning.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000984026
1000984028