Teaching with Dystopian Text: Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience

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Michael Arthur Soares (Heartland Community College, USA)

Teaching with Dystopian Text

Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience

Michael Arthur Soares (Heartland Community College, USA)

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Routledge
30 January 2025

Literacy; Secondary schools; Teaching of a specific subject

Series: Routledge Research in Literacy Education

Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around “Orwellian Spaces,” signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education.

The volume details the urgency of dystopian texts for secondary students, providing theoretical frameworks, classroom examples and practical research. The function of dystopian texts, such as George Orwell’s 1984, as social and political critique is demonstrated as central to their power. Teaching with Dystopian Text: Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience makes a case that dystopian texts can be instrumental in the transfer of spatial practices to pedagogical practices. Pedagogical application creates links between the text and the student through defamiliarization, connecting the student to practices of resistance in the space of the classroom. The volume also addresses the challenges of teaching dystopian text in a dystopian educational climate including the COVID-19 lockdown.

In addition to appealing to scholars and researchers of literacy education, language education and dystopian text, this book will also be a powerful yet accessible resource for secondary teachers as they address dystopian concerns with students in the complicated twenty-first century.

By: Michael Arthur Soares (Heartland Community College USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 344g
ISBN: 9781032488554
ISBN 10: 1032488557
Series: Routledge Research in Literacy Education
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 30 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Arthur Soares is a secondary school English Teacher and an English Adjunct Faculty Member at Heartland Community College, USA.