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ERIC Number: EJ1059095
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-2368-4526
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Teaching World Literature for the 21st Century: Online Resources and Interactive Approaches
Bernstein, Lisa
Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, v6 p54-59 2013
This paper introduces a pedagogical approach and strategies for using online resources and interactive media to teach in English about writers and writing from around the world without colonizing or excluding other languages and cultures. First, I explain the context and challenges of teaching world literature: the importance of including diverse works and authors; competing definitions and information overload; barriers to international availability and accessibility of non-dominant works and of non-English languages; and students' limited historical and cross-cultural knowledge. I then show how faculty can incorporate open-source Internet and interactive multimedia resources into world literature courses in ways that allow alternative and outsider voices to challenge and expand national, ethnic, linguistic, socio-political, and disciplinary boundaries. Faculty can use web resources such as blogs and wikis; online self-publishing and translation sites; maps, timelines, primary documents, and other sources of historical and socio-political context; and social media platforms to create a more inclusive notion of world literature, as well as a learning process that is dynamic, collaborative, and relevant to students' daily lives.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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