Monsters in the Classroom

Essays on Teaching What Scares Us

Adam Golub, Heather Richardson Hayton (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6327-2 (ISBN)

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Exploring the pedagogical power of the monstrous, this collection of essays provides curriculum and teaching strategies that use our cultural fascination with monsters to enhance learning in high school and college courses. The contributors explore the implications of inviting fearsome creatures into the classroom and describe how they work to create compelling narrative and illustrative models.

Exploring the pedagogical power of the monstrous, this collection of new essays describes innovative teaching strategies that use our cultural fascination with monsters to enhance learning in high school and college courses. The contributors discuss the implications of inviting fearsome creatures into the classroom, showing how they work to create compelling narratives and provide students a framework for analyzing history, culture, and everyday life. Essays explore ways of using the monstrous to teach literature, film, philosophy, theater, art history, religion, foreign language, and other subjects. Some sample syllabi, assignments, and class materials are provided.

Adam Golub is associate professor and director of the M.A. program in American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches courses on literature, popular culture, childhood, and monsters. His academic writing has appeared in various journals, including Film and History, American Quarterly, Hybrid Pedagogy, and Anthropology Now. Heather Richardson Hayton is an award-winning professor in the English Department and the Director of the Honors Program at Guilford College, and is the President of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. A medievalist by training, she teaches early-period courses as well as popular culture topics.

Table of Contents

Foreword (W. Scott Poole)

Introduction: Monstrous Pedagogies

Adam Golub and Heather Richardson Hayton

Part I—Teaching Difference: The Monster Appears

Teaching Monsters from Medieval to Modern: Embracing the Abnormal (Asa Simon Mittman)

Gender, Sexuality and Rhetorical Vulnerabilities in Monster Literature and Pedagogy (Pamela Bedore)

Creating Visual Rhetoric and the Monstrous (Nancy Hightower)

Monsters as Subversive Imagination: Inviting Monsters into the Philosophy Classroom (Jessica Elbert Decker)

Part II—Transforming Space: The Monster Roams

Locating Monsters: Space, Place and Monstrous Geographies (Adam Golub)

White Settlers and Wendigos: Teaching Monstrosity in American Gothic Narratives (Bernice M. Murphy)

Meeting the Monstrous Through Experiential Study-Abroad Pedagogy

(Kyle William Bishop)

Using Zombies to Teach Theatre Students (Phil Smith)

Part III—Disrupting Systems: The Monster Attacks Studying Gods and Monsters (Joshua Paddison)

Monsters in the Dark Forest of Japanese Grammar (Charlotte Eubanks)

High School Monsters: Designing Secondary English Courses (Brian Sweeney)

The Monster Waiting Within: Unleashing Agon in the Community

(Heather Richardson Hayton)

Afterword: Monster Classroom (Seven Theses)

(Jeffrey Jerome Cohen)

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	9 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-6327-0 / 1476663270
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6327-2 / 9781476663272
Zustand	Neuware