Developing UK and Norwegian Undergraduate Students' Conceptions of Personal Social Issues in Young Adult Fiction through Transnational Reflective Exchange

Autor/inn/en	Syed, Ghazal Kazim; Naylor, Amanda; Rimmereide, Hege Emma; Varga, Zoltan; Alara Guanio-Uluru, Lykke Harmony
Titel	Developing UK and Norwegian Undergraduate Students' Conceptions of Personal Social Issues in Young Adult Fiction through Transnational Reflective Exchange
Quelle	In: English in Education, 55 (2021) 1, S.53-69 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Syed, Ghazal Kazim)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0425-0494
DOI	10.1080/04250494.2019.1676641
Schlagwörter	Literature; Teaching Methods; Cross Cultural Studies; Novels; Adolescent Literature; Foreign Countries; International Cooperation; Computer Mediated Communication; Social Problems; Gender Issues; Racial Bias; Social Class; Power Structure; Diseases; Student Attitudes; Undergraduate Students; War; Social Differences; Political Attitudes; Intercultural Communication; Computer Software; Reader Response; Norway; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Literatur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Novel; Roman; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Ausland; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Computerkonferenz; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Geschlechterfrage; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Disease; Krankheit; Schülerverhalten; Krieg; Sozialer Unterschied; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Leserbrief; Norwegen; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article presents the results from an international collaboration between undergraduate students in the United Kingdom and Norway. Using Literature Circles and "Google Documents" in groups, the students liaised digitally over three young adult novels that are prominent within the UK school curriculum. This study explored the ways in which the students together related and responded to the depiction of social and personal issues in the texts. The themes that emerged as being significant to the undergraduates were gender, racism, social class, power distribution and the portrayal of serious illness. In particular, the students related to the portrayal of issues that they viewed as relevant to themselves and potentially to younger students who might read the novels. The online platform provided them space to discuss issues such as death, racism, inequality, war and contemporary politics as they are represented through the medium of literary texts. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01