Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach
Ayanna Thompson, "Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose: A Student-Centred Approach"
English | ISBN: 1472599616 | 2016 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1472599616 | 2016 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare means teaching everything, or teaching “Western Civilisation” and universal themes. Instead, this invigorating new book equips teachers to enable student-centred discovery of these complex texts.
Because Shakespeare's plays are excellent vehicles for many topics -history, socio-cultural norms and mores, vocabulary, rhetoric, literary tropes and terminology, performance history, performance strategies - it is tempting to teach his plays as though they are good for teaching everything. This lens-free approach, however, often centres the classroom on the teacher as the expert and renders Shakespeare's plays as fixed, determined, and dead.
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