Essays about: "School canon"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words School canon.

  1. 1. What to teach or how to teach? : A survey on the consequences a less detail-controlled curriculum has on English teachers´ choice of English-language literature

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Valentin Andrijevic; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish National Curriculum; less detail-controlled; English-language literature; critical literacy; critical pedagogy; intersectionality; Half of a Yellow Sun; Swedish Cultural Canon of Literature;

    Abstract : This essay aims to examine which consequences a less-detail controlled curriculum has on English teachers’ choice of English-language literature. With support from the literature review, this essay argues that an unofficial, tacit school canon of English-language literature mainly composed of ten literary works seems to have been established in Swedish upper-secondary schools, despite the Swedish National Curriculum not naming specific literary works educators in Sweden are required to use in their teaching. READ MORE

  3. 2. Why read classic literature? : A mixed method study of English teachers’ and students’ attitudes toward classic literature in upper secondary school in Sweden

    University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Helin Levin; [2023]
    Keywords : English; classic literature; canon; teaching; attitude; upper secondary school; Sweden; questionnaire; interviews;

    Abstract : This study aims to investigate both teachers’ and students’ attitudes toward classic literature in English language classrooms. The importance of the canon in education is also examined in the study. READ MORE

  4. 3. Englishes in Upper Secondary EFL Teaching. A Study of Teachers’ Selection, in Relation to Kachru’s Circles

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Lärarutbildningsnämnden

    Author : Hanna Furenäs; [2022-08-03]
    Keywords : Teaching; literary canon; EFL; EIL; Kachru’s circles;

    Abstract : The reality of the English language has shifted from being the language of the Empire to an international Lingua Franca. This pluricultural way of viewing English is reflected in the syllabus for the subject. READ MORE

  5. 4. Multicultural literature and intercultural theory in English 6 : A qualitative study of teachers’ experiences with multicultural literature in upper-secondary schools in Sweden

    University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Bian Solmaz; [2022]
    Keywords : Multicultural literature; intercultural theory; diversity; culture; intercultural pedagogy; L2 English; education; content analysis; interviews; upper-secondary school; Sweden;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine English language teachers’ choices and uses of literary texts, and more particularly, multicultural forms of literature from an intercultural pedagogical angle. Drawing on a qualitative approach, six English teachers’ experiences were explored using interviews. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Space of Uncertainty : The Relevance of Canon law in the Aftermath of the Scholastic School

    University essay from Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm/Avdelningen för östkyrkliga studier

    Author : Daniel Öhrvall; [2021]
    Keywords : ”Canon law”; “Theory and practice”; “Ecclesiology”; ”Eastern Christian Studies”;

    Abstract : The ancient canons are regarded as a collection of texts with almost the same status as the biblical text in the Easter Orthodox Church. The corpus has therefore a firm position in the identity of this church-tradition and is recognized as how faith, expressed in the gospels should be lived in ecclesial practice. READ MORE