This volume brings together work by renowned scholars in the field
of foreign/second/heritage languages and literatures, who employ a
variety of scholarly tools to examine opportunities associated with
literature as a force for rehumanizing and invigorating target
language (TL) education in the 21st century. Offering viable
avenues for reconciling historic differences between language
pedagogues and literature educators, their work demonstrates that
language pedagogy and literary studies are not divergent or
competing disciplines separated by firm barriers, but rather
convergent, interdependent, mutually beneficial, and genuinely
complementary areas of inquiry. Each chapter foregrounds the
multilayered value of target language literary education, aligning
it with competencies that reside at the core of broader
contemporary educational and societal priorities and aspirations.
The contributors connect literature education to a wide array of
goals, including not only literacy, communicative competencies,
critical reading, and critical thinking, but also social
engagement, global citizenship, intercultural sensitivity, and
symbolic competence. Without minimizing the significant challenges
facing language educators today, Rehumanizing the Language
Curriculum argues in various ways for rehumanizing language
education as the most effective means for overcoming pressing
challenges, for addressing urgent priorities, and for approaching
our full potential within the diversity of this vibrant community
of scholarship and practice. "Rehumanizing the Language Curriculum
should be compulsory reading for educators wishing to integrate
language and literature teaching. This is a welcome and much needed
contribution to rehumanizing language education in the 21st
century." -Werner Delanoy, University of Klagenfurt "Featuring an
international cast of contributors, this volume provides new
insights into the role of literature in 21st century language
education. Through various theoretical, ideological, and
pedagogical lenses, the chapters present innovative and
thought-provoking ways to reconcile the language-content divide and
teach language and literature as interdependent parts of a whole.
The result is a volume that encourages readers to value and embrace
the range of disciplinary content and scholarly perspectives
comprising language programs." -Kate Paesani, University of
Minnesota "This wide-ranging collection highlights the importance
of literature education in the language classroom, critiquing
reductionist views of language education and making insightful
connections between areas such as literary reading, deep reading,
language education and general educational competencies. A
thoughtful and often provocative collection, it provides a variety
of lenses for understanding the ways in which second language
learners can engage with literature, and a clear illustration of
the immense world of new possibilities that is opened up when using
literature." -Amos Paran, University College London "Rehumanizing
the Language Curriculum is an ambitious, wide-ranging, yet readable
collection of chapters which makes us rediscover the role of
literature in language education. Addressing current issues such as
intercultural communication, ecology, and diversity, this book
proves the practicality and versatility of literature. In the
gloomy educational environment in which pedagogical effects are
mistakenly visualized statistically, uniformly, or even
financially, the multifaceted approaches illustrated in this volume
are a must for language teachers and scholars in any context."
-Masayuki Teranishi, University of Hyogo, Japan
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