Teaching with Dystopian Text (Routledge Research in Literacy Education) - Softcover

Soares, Michael Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032488557 ISBN 13: 9781032488554

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032488557
• ISBN 13: 9781032488554
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186