Reading material

A series of resources that the student teacher must study in this session and a series of additional resources for further study.

Compulsory reading list

  1. C. P. Cavafy, “The Walls”, http://www.snhell.gr/cavafyarchive/poems/content.asp?id=138&cat=1
  2. Boatright, M. D., Allman, A. (2018), “Last Year’s Choice Is This Year’s Voice: Valuing Democratic Practices in the Classroom through Student-Selected Literature”. Democracy and Education, 26(2), https://democracyeducationjournal.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1400&context=home
  3. Laila Aase, Mike Fleming, Irene Pieper (ed.), Florentina Sâmihăian, “Text, literature and ‘Bildung’ – comparative perspectives”, Languages of schooling within a European framework for Languages of Education: learning, teaching, assessment, Council of Europe https://rm.coe.int/16805a31de

List for further reading

  1. Fleming, Mike. (2007). The Literary Canon: implications for the teaching of language as subject, Language Policy Unit, Council of Europe, Strasbourg https://rm.coe.int/16805a31de  
  2. Nehamas. Alexander, “Memory, Pleasure and Poetry: The Grammar of the Self in the Writing of Cavafy”, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Volume 1, Number 2, October 1983, pp. 295-319 DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2010.0079  
  3. Witte, T.C.H. & Sâmihăian, F. (2013). “Is Europe open to a student-oriented framework for literature? A comparative analysis of the formal literature curriculum in six European countries”. L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, vol.13, p. 1-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17239/L1ESLL-2013.01.02 
  4. Pieper, Irene. (2020). “L1 Education and the Place of Literature”, in Green B., Erixon PO. (eds.), Rethinking L1 Education in a Global Era, in B. Green, P.-O. Erixon (eds.), Rethinking L1 Education in a Global Era, Educational Linguistics 48, Springer, Cham.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55997-7_6