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Beyond the Dark : Dystopian Texts in the Secondary English Classroom
Patricia Dowsett
(editor),
Ellen Rees
(editor),
Alex Wharton
(editor),
Kensington Gardens
:
Australian Association for the Teaching of English
,
2020
19662049
2020
selected work
criticism
'Dystopian texts represent worlds that are both strange and strangely familiar. This seeming paradox is just one of the ways these works functions as useful and engaging narratives for exploring English concepts in secondary classrooms. Accompanied and guided by their teachers, students can not only engage with the fiction, but also imagine what the world could really be like and how they might change the way it actually is.
'Reading and studying dystopian works offers a vehicle for navigating and negotiating a sometimes disturbing and often disconcerting world - of find power and personal agency in situations of powerlessness, in finding warmth, human connection and self-sacrifice in a world that can seem callous, selfish and devoid of humanity, of finding light beyond the dark.
'This publication is intended as a guide for English teachers as they develop learning sequences for their students that ask them to investigate worlds both imaginary and real. Using contemporary Australian, along with some classic dystopian fiction, it shares insights and provides practical strategies for teaching a broad range of dystopian texts in contemporary classrooms.'
Source: Back cover.
Kensington Gardens : Australian Association for the Teaching of English , 2020 pg. 8-34
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Beyond the Dark : Dystopian Texts in the Secondary English Classroom
Patricia Dowsett
(editor),
Ellen Rees
(editor),
Alex Wharton
(editor),
Kensington Gardens
:
Australian Association for the Teaching of English
,
2020
19662049
2020
selected work
criticism
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- Kisses of the Enemy 1987 single work novel
- The Swan Book 2013 single work novel
- The Future Australian Race 1877 single work short story
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow 1947 single work novel
- On the Beach 1957 single work novel
- A Cry from the Heart: Changing Lives, One by One 2017 single work autobiography
- The Sea and Summer 1987 single work novel
- Heat and Light 2014 selected work short story
- The Kadaitcha Sung 1990 single work novel
- Hive 2018 single work novel
- Tomorrow, When the War Began 1993 single work novel
- Terra Nullius 2017 single work novel
- Cleverman 2016 series - publisher film/TV
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