Fairy Tales in the College Classroom

Essays to Spark Lesson Plan Ideas Across the Curriculum

Buch | Softcover

225 Seiten

2024
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
9781476689524 (ISBN)

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Centered on fairy tales, this pedagogical resource contains educational theories and classroom techniques contributed by scholars from around the world. Students’ worldviews will be expanded along with their critical thinking, reading, writing, creative, and expressive skills.

Educators aspire to teach skills that will expand the way their students think and act, not just in the classroom but throughout their lives. Centered on fairy tales, this pedagogical resource contains educational theories and classroom techniques contributed by scholars from around the world. Each teaching technique provided uses the familiarity of fairy tales as a non-threatening base to explore complex concepts and practices while encouraging students to examine the origins and assumptions of their own society, to expand their worldviews along with their critical thinking, reading, writing, creative, and expressive skills.

This collection of essays is primarily designed for use in post-secondary classes, but it is an invaluable resource for any educator. The book is organized into five parts with two to three essays in each section, each presenting detailed theories and learning goals behind the classroom activities. Practical advice for adapting lessons for various education levels, class lengths, and subjects of coursework is also included. These practices for teaching fairy tales provide a firm foundation for creating lessons that will give students and instructors a greater understanding of our world and the promise of a better future.

Heather Powers is a professor emerita of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has taught writing classes for more than 30 years. Her research focuses on transformative works about Harry Potter, Star Trek, and Sherlock Holmes.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Heather Powers

Part I. Tell Me a Story: The Craft of Writing

“Fires that blaze brightly”: The Language of the Tale

Michael Jones

Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Paper: Teaching Fairy Tales in the Composition Classroom

Theodora Goss and Amy Bennett-Zendzian

The Use of Fairy Tales in Second Language Learning: From Grammar Acquisition to Intercultural Competence

Catalina Millán-Scheiding

Part II. More Than Words Can Say: The Importance of Visual Literacy

Picture This: The Pedagogical Value of Picture Books

Gabrielle Stecher

Tales for Today: A Fairy-Tale Collaboration Between English and

Daniel J. Weinstein and Nathan Heuer

Part III. Decolonizing the Narrative: Going Beyond Students’ Expectations

The Value of the African Dilemma Tales as a Pedagogical Resource

Ayub Sheik, Martha Khosa, Nicholus Nyika, and Bheki Mthembu

Empowerment Through Language: Code-Mixing in Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Sarah Victor

Part IV. And They Lived Happily Ever After: Challenging Patriarchal Norms

Teaching “Little Red Riding Hood” Through a Feminist Lens

Jade Dillon Craig

Mystery, Magic, and Enchantment: The Uses of Fairy Tale in Teaching Women’s Literature

Tanya Heflin

Disenchanting the Romantic Ideal: Workshop Activities for Feminist Fairy-Tale Restorying

Ka Yan Lam

Part V. Weaving Yarns: A Big Ball of Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey … Stuff

“Tale[s] as old as time”: Teaching Adaptation Criticism Using Fairy Tales

Melodie Roschman

Old and New Magic: The Grimm Brothers and Cornelia Funke’s Mirrorworld

Susanne Even

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2024
Zusatzinfo	9 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781476689524 / 9781476689524
Zustand	Neuware