Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East
Department
English
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant.
Teaching the Literature of Today’s Middle East:
• Introduces teachers to this literature and how to teach it
• Brings to the reader a tremendous diversity of teachable texts and materials by Middle Eastern writers
• Takes a thematic approach that allows students to understand and engage with the region and address key issues
• Includes stories from the author’s own classroom, and shares student insight and reactions
• Utilizes contemporary teaching methods, including cultural studies, literary circles, blogs, YouTube, class speakers, and film analysis
• Directly and powerfully models how to address controversial issues in the region
Written in an open, personal, and engaging style, theoretically informed and academically smart, highly relevant across the field of literacy education, this text offers teachers and teacher-educators a much needed resource for helping students to think deeply and critically about the politics and culture of the Middle East through literary engagements.
Call number in WMU's library
PJ809 .T43 2012 (WMU Authors Collection)
ISBN
9780415874373
Publication Date
2012
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York
Keywords
Middle Eastern literature, teaching literature
Disciplines
Curriculum and Instruction | Near Eastern Languages and Societies
Recommended Citation
Webb, Allen; Alvarez, David; Auer, Blain H.; Eraqi, Monica Mona; Patterson, Jeffrey A.; and Steemers, Vivan, "Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East" (2012). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 2.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/2