Literature in Education
| Title | Λογοτεχνία στην Εκπαίδευση / Literature in Education |
| Code | ΕΚΠ 501 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600016531 |
Programme of Study: Néo prógramma spoudṓn 2025-2026
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLŌSSA, LOGOTECΗNIA KAI PSĪFIAKA MESA STĪN EKPAIDEUSĪ | Compulsory Course | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Academic Year | 2024 – 2025 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600270101
|
EPIChallenges
- Sustainable Transformation
Type Of Offer
- Disciplinary Course
Course Type 2021
Specific Foundation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600270101
- eLearning: https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=16659
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
To provide students with a comprehensive approach to the use of literature in education
To explore literature through listening, discussion, writing, and dramatic activities
To use literature in conjunction with other subject areas in order to teach concepts
To enable students to transfer and apply knowledge from reading and class activities to real-life situations
To help students develop teacher competencies for planning, teaching, integrating, and evaluating a discipline-based literature class
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an international context
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This module will introduce students to the idea of reading and using literature in the classroom in resourceful and effective ways. We will discuss the notions of ‘deconstructive’ and ‘adaptive’ reading, as well as ‘readerly’ and ‘writerly’ texts and examine ways in which they can motivate and inspire students in the learning process. We will also approach literature as an inexhaustible source of meaning, and experiment with ways in which it can be transferred to other media. The literary texts will be explored as discursive blending pots that invite readings across cultures and genres, opening in this way new perspectives in teaching methodology. Classes will be largely practical, as they will provide students with drama and storytelling techniques, as well as games and exercises that will help them incorporate literature in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language. They will also be experiential in principal, as the students themselves will get into the shoes of the language learner and engage in the proposed literary and drama activities.
Keywords
literature, culture, experiential learning, theatrical techniques, narrative techniques, deconstruction, text adaptation
Educational Material Types
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
- Interactive excersises
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seminars | 39 | ✓ | |||
| Laboratory Work | 39 | ✓ | |||
| Reading Assigment | 39 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Field trips and participation in conferences / seminars / activities | 40 | ✓ | |||
| Project | 48 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Written assigments | 50 | ✓ | |||
| Artistic creation | 20 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Total | 275 |
Student Assessment
Description
In-class participation and group work (25%)
Weekly assignments (15%)
School Projects/ Teaching (30%)
Reflective essay on teaching(about 3,000 words) + appendix (30%)
Student Assessment methods
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
- Report (Formative, Summative)
- Labortatory Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Artistic Performance (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Abbot, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. 2nd edition. Cambridge UP, 2008.
Armstrong, Thomas, and Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom. 2nd ed. Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2000.
Attridge, Derek. The Work of Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Barnet, Sylvan, Burto William, and William E. Cain, eds. An Introduction to Literature: Fiction, Poetry, Drama. 13th ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004.
Berman, Michael. Multiple Intelligences Road to an ELT Classroom. Crown House Publishing.
Brady, Martha and Gleason, Patsy T. Artstarts: Drama, Music, Movement, Puppetry, and Storytelling Activities/Grades K6. Teacher Ideas Press, 1994.
Bloomfield, Anne and Childs, John. Teaching Integrated Arts in the Primary School: Dance, Drama, Music and the Visual Arts. David Fulton Publishers, 2000.
Bracher, M. Radical Pedagogy: Identity, Generativity and Social Transformation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Barker, Clive. Theatre Games.
Cassidy, Marsha. The Art of Storytelling: Creative Ideas for Preparation and Performance. Meriwether Publishing, 1994.
Boal, Augusto. Games for Actors and NonActors.
Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
Gardner, Howard, and Getty Center for Education in the Arts. Art Education and Human Development. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Center for Education in the Arts, 1990.
Goldberg, Merryl. Arts and Learning: An Integrated Approach to Teaching and Learning in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings.
Heathcote, Dorothy and Gavin Bolton. Drama for Learning: Dorothy Heathcote's Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education.
Johnstone, Keith. Impro.
Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies. London: Routledge, 2011.
Moore, Alex. Teaching and Learning, Pedagogy, Curriculum and Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2012.
Scholes, Robert. Elements of Fiction: An Anthology. Oxford University Press, 1981.
Small, Helen. The Value of the Humanities. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Stein, Pippa. Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms. London and New York: Routledge, 2008.
Waugh, P. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford UP, 2006.
Wingard, Joel. Literature: Reading and Responding to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and to the Essay. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers, 1996.
Last Update
22-10-2025
