Essays about: "Essay About English knowledge"

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1. 1. Barriers for Belonging in Fiction : The House on Mango Street as a Resource for Teaching

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Daniel Ekström; [2022]
   Keywords : identity; belonging; discrimination; Sandra Cisneros; Swedish curriculum; syllabus; upper secondary school;

   Abstract : Swedish curricula and syllabi constitute a richness of different considerations. Withinthis composition of principles, it is distinctly declared that all Swedish schools should counteract any inclination of discrimination and that intolerance must be answered with different measures, including knowledge (Skolverket, 2011b, 1). READ MORE

3. 2. Teaching The Hate U Give in upper secondary school : Close reading Angie Thomas’s novel in order to develop cultural awareness among upper secondary school students

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Felicia Lampén; [2022]
   Keywords : Literature; Fiction; Close reading; Racism; Cultural awareness;

   Abstract : This essay demonstrates how close reading a passage in The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas can teach students of English 6, in Swedish upper secondary schools, about institutional racism in order to develop cultural awareness. The English subject shows the importance of developing cultural awareness when stating that students should develop an understanding of cultural and social conditions in different contexts and areas where English is used. READ MORE

4. 3. The Dream Interpreter : A Historical and Postcolonial Analysis of the Development of Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Nathalie Pontén; [2022]
   Keywords : Wide Sargasso Sea; Jean Rhys; Jane Eyre; Colonialism; Patriarchy; Orientalism; Edward Said;

   Abstract : This essay will discuss Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea from a postcolonial and historical perspective, to show how Rhys’s recreation of Bertha Rochester’s past (Charlotte Brontë’s madwoman in Jane Eyre) can make her end appear triumphant. The analysis will be based on a combination of aspects from the novel’s contemporary English and Caribbean societies and Edward Said’s thoughts about Orientalism, mainly the binary opposition between Europe and the Orient and the creation of Orientalist knowledge. READ MORE

5. 4. Knowledge through Fiction: Characters as Social Metaphors in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sebastian Vaca Vink; [2021]
   Keywords : Social metaphors;

   Abstract : While it is common to relate to fictional characters, there is a common view that this is all that fiction can provide us with and that we cannot learn from fiction. There are arguments to support this claim, such as the no-evidence argument and the fiction-distortion argument. READ MORE

6. 5. Teaching the Swedish Common Principles as Virtue Ethics: The Unjust Narrator, Gender Inequality and the Arena of Societal Transformation in Welcome to Our Hillbrow

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Emma Aho; [2021]
   Keywords : Phaswane Mpe; virtue ethics; African feminism; narratology; sexism; gender inequality; societal transformation; arena; narrator; implied author; responsible reader; Socratic dialogue; affective-humanistic approach;

   Abstract : According to Skolverket, the Swedish school has two missions: conveying knowledge and teaching values. These values are taught through the common principles (värdegrund) and instruct students about democratic values and human rights. However, Skolverket also reports that students lack such knowledge. READ MORE