How my failure to read a play helped my students develop their learning

Lucinda Becker

doi:10.47408/jldhe.vi22.706

Abstract

A case study focusing on the use of online learning spaces to enhance the student experience and develop a range of learning skills

Highlights

As a teaching-intensive member of academic staff, I have an active interest in how students can develop their learning skills, in English Literature
These seminars are intended to give space to students trying out new ideas and closely analysing literature. Too often they are spaces in which many students are silent, passive learners. This is nothing to do with the intelligence of the students, but arises from a missing piece of learning development related to the challenge faced by my students during the pandemic: how to prepare for a seminar
This sounds simple, but for most students it is not. Prior to university they are not expected to read a whole new play each week, as we do on the Shakespeare module I convene

Summary

Introduction

As a teaching-intensive member of academic staff, I have an active interest in how students can develop their learning skills, in English Literature. How my failure to read a play helped my students develop their learning Prior to university they are not expected to read a whole new play each week, as we do on the Shakespeare module (course) I convene.

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