UNIVERSITY
Summer Semester 2003
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SON FRASER
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EDUC 412
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Dr. Geoffrey Madoc-Jones
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Designs for Learning:
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Office: EDB 8673
Tuesday
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Secondary Language Arts
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Phone: 291-5969
8:30-12:20 in EDB 7600
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D01.00 ?
E-mail: madocjo@sfu.ca
PREREQUISITE:
Educ 401/402
This course will focus on developing knowledge and understanding to create a rich and stimulating language
arts program in the secondary school classroom. Issues in the teaching of the reading of literature, writing,
speaking, listening and viewing will be examined through current theory and teaching practice. There will be
some emphasis on teaching Canadian and B.C. authors.
Outline
1.
The historical context of modernity and post-modernity and its cultural, social and individual ramifications
for LA educators will be investigated.
2.
The key concepts in this area of study, such as: literature, genre, semantics, semiotics, discourse, writing
process reader response, hermeneutics, media studies, evaluation and education, will be examined through an
investigation of their epistemological and historical roots as well as by an analysis of the contemporary debate in
the area of language theory.
3.
A series of literary works will be studied in common, both for the purpose of explication and as the basis for
the development of practical criticism.
4.
A variety of expressive forms, both written, spoken and visual, will be studied so that students can develop and
present their own creative performances.
5.
Recent contributions to our understanding of how secondary school learner's thinking and interests develop
will be studied, as well as how these could affect the design of curricula and the implementation of instruction.
6.
Drawing on the readings and the expressive activities, students will focus on the production of a piece of
curriculum for the secondary LA classroom.
Requirements
1.
Four brief pieces of work, using a variety of media where appropriate, on ideas and/or issues raised by the
readings or work in class. (20%)
2.
Group presentation of a didactic scheme. (20%)
3.
Group performance-incorporating selections from the literary works. (20%)
4.
Major paper or the creation of a piece of curriculum in the area of
secondary language arts. (40%)
TEXTS
Merchant of Venice. William Shakespeare. Oxford World Classics. Oxford University Press.
Fugitive Pieces. Anne Michaels. M&S.
One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children. M. Harrison and C. Stuart-Clark. OUP.
West by Northwest. British Columbia Short Stories. Editors: David Stouck and Myler Wilkinson. 1998.
Polestar.
*A contemporary Canadian novel.
*A book of poetry by a contemporary Canadian poet.
*See instructor for titles.
