Teaching Chaucer

by G. Ashton (Editor), L. Sylvester (Editor)

Overview

This volume of essays offers innovations in teaching Chaucer in higher education. The projects explored in this study focus on a student-centred, active learning designed to enhance independent research skills and critical thinking. These studies also seek to establish conversations - between teachers and learners, and students and their texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403988270
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/15/2007
Series:	Teaching the New English
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	167
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.01(d)

About the Author

LESLEY COOTE Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Hull, UK MOIRA FITZGIBBONS Assistant Professor in the English Department at Marist College, USA SIMON HOROBIN Reader in English Language at the University of Glasgow, UK PEGGY A. KNAPP Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, USA STEVEN F. KRUGER Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA PHILIPPA SEMPER Lecturer in Medieval Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK FIONA TOLHURST Associate Professor of English at Alfred University, New York, USA

Table of Contents

Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; G.Ashton Chaucer for Fun and Profit; P.A.Knapp A Series of Linked Assignments for the Undergraduate Course on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ; S.F.Kruger Why We Should Teach - and Our Students Perform - The Legend of Good Women ; F.Tolhurst 'Cross-Voiced' Assignments and the Critical 'I'; M.Fitzgibbons Teaching the Language of Chaucer; L.Sylvester Teaching the Language of Chaucer Manuscripts; S.Horobin Creating Learning Communities in Chaucer Studies: Process and Product; G.Ashton 'The wondres that they myghte seen or heere': Designing and Using Web-based Resources to Teach Medieval Literature; P.Semper Chaucer and the Visual Image: Learning, Teaching, Assessing; L.Coote Bibliography Suggestions for Further Reading Web Resources Index