scholarly journals Perceptions of prospective Turkish Teachers regarding Literature Circles

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Talat Aydan
Keyword(s):  
Literature Circles

Literature Circles: Access to Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-109
Author(s):  
Ronna J. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Literature Circles

Participating in an international project on readers’ response to Lord of the Flies: insights into undergraduate students’ responses

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Ghazal Kazim Syed ◽  
Manzoor-ul-Mustafa Panhwar
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
International Study ◽  
Literature Circles ◽  
Collaborative Teaching ◽  
International Project ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Teaching Pedagogies

<p>This paper presents the findings of a study based on students’ response to participating in an international project. This international project was a collaboration between Pakistan, the UK and Norway. Collaborative teaching techniques of using literature circles within each class and google circles across the three contexts (online) were used. Twelve participating students from Pakistan were interviewed to explore their reactions to the international study. Students felt that they learnt new things from the use of these innovative methods, were able to learn from foreigners and felt a sense of connectivity to their groups. It is recommended that students from Pakistan be given such exposure to overcome their hesitation. It is recommended that further research be carried out in other contexts as well to determine if the use of such teaching pedagogies can benefit other teachers of literature.</p>

scholarly journals A STUDY OF RUSKIN BOND’S “TENACITY OF MOUNTAIN WATER”

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-13
Author(s):  
Jayasree A ◽  
Shobha Ramaswamy
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Basic Life Support ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Literature Circles ◽  
English Writing ◽  
Religious Person ◽  
Great Love ◽  
Informed Reader ◽  
Simple Narrative

“I am not a religious person but if I were to say I have a religion then I would say I am a nature worshipper.” Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond, a prolific writer, is known for his short stories, novellas and poems and is widely popular especially in Children’s Literature Circles. His stories can be likened to an ecological narrativedesigned to spread awareness about the bitter consequences of human actions that damage the planet’s basic life support system. He has received the Sahitya Akademi Award for English writing in India for ‘Our Trees Still grow in Dehra’ in 1992. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. Ruskin Bond’s stories breathe his great love and sincere concern for nature which is all encompassing and all pervasive.The prismatic portrayal of nature in Bond’s stories enraptures the soul. He draws our sense towards the natural brilliance manifest all around us by presenting a painstakingly drawn out record of the the natural life around him. The amazingly captured landscapes with its myriad forms of life inked by Bond’s imagination and his inimitable style come with a strong lesson on the need to protect and preserve nature. My paper proposes to study Bond’s short story entitled “Tenacity of Mountain Water” that exploresthe interlinked web of life through a simple narrative. Weaving the threads of eco consciousness through the narrative, he marvels at how a tiny rivulet of water becomes a beautiful roaring cascade nourishing and beautifying the entire landscape. The story offers the informed reader a chance to investigate the  underlying ecological values and also revisit the human perception of natural resources.

scholarly journals Education for Sustainability: Developing Ecocritical Literature Circles in the Student Teacher Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Lykke Guanio-Uluru
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Literature Circles ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Core ◽  
Literature Circle

Abstract How can student-teachers learn efficient ways to encourage sustainability thinking in their pupils and fulfil the competence aims on sustainability outlined in national subject curriculums as a response to UNESCO’s programme on Education for Sustainable Development, ESD? The core hypothesis of this project was that tailored literature circles, focused on the ecocritical aspects of literary texts, would make student-teachers aware of how they can use literature as a process to reflect on sustainability. This would enable them to incorporate sustainability thinking into their own teaching practices. The project’s tailoring of the standard literature circle roles (Daniels 1994, 2002, 2006) involved the design of reading roles that highlighted ecocritical and generic aspects of the studied texts and the application of an analytical matrix developed by literary scholars researching the representation of nature in children’s and young adult literature. This article presents the results of a small-scale study testing the ecocritical literature circles approach and its impact on student-teachers’ conception of their own ability to meet the competence aims on sustainability in their teaching. The intervention included lectures on ecocriticism and on the posthuman debate prior to the literature circles and student feedback through pre- and post-circle questionnaires. It was implemented in the teacher-training classroom, working with dystopian science fiction texts for young adults. These texts present the reader with visions of the future. The study showed that the ecocritical literature circles, and in particular the ecocritical reading roles, were considered useful by the participating student-teachers. The participants also reported a significant increase in confidence relative to their own ability to discuss sustainability issues with their pupils.

Literature Circles In ELF Literature Classroom Settings

2015 ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Mohammed Yamine Boulenouar
Keyword(s):  
Literature Circles ◽  
Literature Classroom

Preservice Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 298-317
Author(s):  
Deanna Day
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Elementary Students ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Literature Circles ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Read Alouds ◽  
Long Read

This chapter describes how a children's literature educator provided a space for preservice teachers to select, read, and discuss diverse and social justice literature through read-alouds and literature circles. In addition, the preservice teachers questioned and challenged their own assumptions about their world during a semester-long read-aloud partnership with elementary students focusing on diverse or social justice children's literature. The college students involved the children in discussions around the texts and planned response activities for them. The findings suggest that partnerships, emphasizing diverse literature, help preservice teachers practice how to choose diverse books, experience the value of read-alouds, and discover how to encourage discussion around diverse texts.

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