Teaching & Learning English Literature, Ellie Chambers, Marshall Gregory, Highter Education 241 pages Contents Acknowledgements vii Teaching and Learning the Humanities in Higher Education ix Foreword xi Introduction 1 1 The discipline today 5 In crisis? 5 From ancient pedagogy . . . 10 . . . To the modern academy 25 Intrinsic justification 37 2 What is good teaching? 40 ‘Teaching’ and ‘good teaching’ 40 An approach to teaching close reading: textual analysis and interpretation 49 Postscript 61 3 Teaching literary theory and teaching writing 63 ‘Positioning’ literary theory 63 Approaching the teaching of theory and criticism 68 Teaching theory and criticism 72 Approaches to teaching academic writing 80 Academic literacies 84 Writing pedagogy 86 Postscript 89 4 Planning for teaching: curriculum and course design 91 ‘Modelling’ curriculum design 91 The curriculum 95 Curriculum aims 97 Subject benchmarking 99 Course design issues 107 Progression 114 Models of curriculum design revisited 118 Postscript 120 5 Methods of teaching 122 ‘Good teaching’ revisited 122 Teaching beginning students: socio-cultural pedagogic principles 125 Working methods: methods that work 135 Electronic teaching methods 156 Postscript 158 6 Student assessment 161 Transparent assessment criteria and standards 162 Designing an assessment regime 168 Feedback and learning 176 Various forms of assessment 182 Postscript 190 7 Evaluating teaching; future trends 193 Evaluating courses and teaching 193 Trends 205 Bibliography 212 Index 223 Appendices (on the book’s website: www.sagepub.co.uk/chambers.pdf) 1 Text of ‘Araby’ 2 Teaching theoretical orientations: a tutorial 3 Sample curricula 4 Sample exam papers 5 Generic and graduate skills 6 Sample course assessment designs 7 Electronic sources