Tuesday, February 28, 2012

QCR520 - What's in it for you and me, TG2?!

Let's start this week by answering any or all of these questions:
What made you decide to become a Literature teacher?
Did your "reading biography" and schooling experiences influence your professional biography?
What are your beliefs about the "why" and "what" and "how" of English Literature education in Singapore?
What do you hope to gain from this course?


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Calvino, I. (1986) Why read the classics? The New York Review of Books, 33(15).
Eagleton, T. (1983) What is literature? In Literary theory: An introduction (2nd ed., pp. 1-14). London: Blackwell.
Booth, W. (1998) The ethics of teaching literature. College English, 61(1), 41-55.
Ministry of Education. Literature in English Syllabi’s Aims and Outcomes.

QCR520 - What's in it for you and me, TG1?!


Let's start this week by answering any or all of these questions:
What made you decide to become a Literature teacher?
Did your "reading biography" and schooling experiences influence your professional biography?
What are your beliefs about the "why" and "what" and "how" of English Literature education in Singapore?
What do you hope to gain from this course?

_____
Calvino, I. (1986) Why read the classics? The New York Review of Books, 33(15).
Eagleton, T. (1983) What is literature? In Literary theory: An introduction (2nd ed., pp. 1-14). London: Blackwell.
Booth, W. (1998) The ethics of teaching literature. College English, 61(1), 41-55.
Ministry of Education. Literature in English Syllabi’s Aims and Outcomes.