Challenges and Channels

English Language and Literature at a Crossroads of Cultures

Ikram Ahmed Ibrahim Elsherif, Piers Michael Smith (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

2016 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4438-8951-3 (ISBN)

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This book deals with the "challenges of teaching the English language and literature" in the Middle East and North Africa region, with a special focus on the Gulf countries. It consists of different articles by an international group of educators and scholars who have first-hand experience in teaching the English language and its literatures in this region. The contributors not only investigate student attitudes, cultural, political and administrative obstacles and challenges, but they also embark upon soul-searching journeys in which they examine their own attitudes, teaching strategies, cultural prejudices and preconceptions, and personal responses to their teaching environments. They also explore, from their own personal experiences, the 'crisis in the humanities', cultural hegemony, ethics in translation, cross-cultural encounters, pedagogical challenges, textuality, and second language acquisition, among other issues and concerns. As such, the book represents both a scholarly investigation and a colorful palette of personal experience and response to human encounters in the classroom.

Ikram Ahmed Elsherif is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST), Kuwait. She received a PhD in African American Literature from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, in 1999. She is the recipient of several Fulbright junior scholar grants, as well as a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship at the Newberry Library, Chicago, USA, in 2004-2005. She has worked as a Research Fellow at St. Mary's College at Durham University, UK, and has published on postcolonial and ethnic literature and on Native-American, African-American and Arab-American literatures.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2016
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4438-8951-2 / 1443889512
ISBN-13	978-1-4438-8951-3 / 9781443889513
Zustand	Neuware