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Marcy
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Marcy Bauman
Writing Program, University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128
fax: 313-593-5552
http://www.umd.umich.edu/~marcyb
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:41:01 +0100 (BST)
From: Ian Maclachlan <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: SPOON-ANN: CfP: Literature and Pedagogy
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International Conference on Literature and Pedagogy
May 12-14 2000
University of Aberdeen French Department
Throughout the history of French culture, literature and pedagogy have
intertwined in important and varied ways, each contributing to the
development and definition of the other. The conference will explore
these interrelations under three different headings:
Pedagogy in Literature. From Gargantua to the postcolonial novel,
literary representations of the educational process have figured in a wide
range of French and francophone fiction, and have acted both as critiques
of existing practice (e.g. the colonial school as key site of
assimilationist policy) and as blueprints for an 'ideal' education
(e.g. Emile).
Literature as Pedagogy. Literary texts which are designed to teach their
readers (children or adults): to provide moral, religious, social or
political education (or indoctrination); or the use of existing literary
texts for non-literary ends within the educational process - e.g. foreign
language-learning, literacy campaigns, etc.
The pedagogical construction of literature. Sociological analyses of the
processes whereby the educational system shapes the literary culture of
the society: canonization, definitions of the category 'literature',
creation of a national literature, etc.
Offers of papers on these or related topics are invited. Please address
abstracts of 200-400 words before 30 September 1999 to:
Prof. Celia Britton, Department of French, University of Aberdeen, Taylor
Building, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3UB, Scotland, UK. Fax: (+44) (0)1224 272562.
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Ian Maclachlan
Dept of French
University of Aberdeen
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