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1. 1. Diversity is best : A literary analysis of how Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” may promote understanding and awareness towards the social construct of neurodiversity  

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Julia Hollertz; [2019]
   Keywords : Neurodiversity; English Level 6; Fundamental Values; Autism Spectrum Disorder; Neurotypicality; Social Model of Disability; Accurate Representation; Self-determination; Impairments; Disability;

   Abstract : This essay investigates how the first person narrative of Mark Haddon’s neurodiverse protagonist in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time raises awareness for the complexity of neurodiversity in relation to a neurotypical society. This has been done by applying the critical lens of Disability Studies and Disability Studies in Education to explain how disability is a concept of social and cultural construct. READ MORE

3. 2. What am I, what are you? : A pedagogical analysis on how C.N Adichie's novel "Americanah" comments on the postcolonial features; alterity, identity, and racial prejudice, and their use in the EFL classroom.

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Julia Hollertz; [2018]
   Keywords : Literary didactic analysis; EFL teaching; Upper Secondary School; students as democratic citizens; Americanah; postcolonial theory; alterity; identity; racial prejudice;

   Abstract : The Swedish school has grown multicultural due to the recent years' migration and globalization of society. This place higher demands on the school's responsibility to educate students who are accepting and understanding towards each other, no matter their cultural and ethnic backgrounds. READ MORE