ERIC Number: EJ1256570
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jun
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Sharing Critical Perspectives in ELT with "The Hunger Games"
Bland, Janice
Education and Society, v38 n1 p39-55 Jun 2020
This paper examines how student teachers and language learners might learn to question perspectives and develop critical literacy through critiquing of texts. Focusing on work in an in-service teacher education course, the discussion explores how to help English language learners to read text representations critically, in order to identify harmful ideological slants. It outlines how teachers and their learners can -- through deep reading, in-depth learning and critical literacy -- work at contemplating ethical issues in empathy with a protagonist. Opportunities for interculturality and critical literacy are illustrated by the books and films of Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games."
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Student Teachers, Critical Literacy, Inservice Teacher Education, Ideology, Ethics, Empathy, Books, Films, Cultural Pluralism, Social Justice, Textbook Content, Popular Culture, Secondary School Students, Adolescents, Reader Text Relationship, Foreign Countries, English Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education
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