Literary Education

Recommended Prerequisites

Students must have a systematic knowledge of Portuguese language and literature and they must be familiar to  aesthetic-literary and cultural coordinates.

Teaching Methods

Presentation and discussion of historical-literary content and theoretical concepts; practice of literary reading.

Edition of a collective anthology of literary excerpts and / or works of full reading and its readings in terms of literary education.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completing the course, the student is expected to:

- master the core concepts covered in the syllabus;

- understand the history of youth literature  written in Portuguese;

- understand the classics of world literature recommended in NLP

- select literary texts that are adequate for adult education;

- develop strategies for teaching students to love literature.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The literary education on  Portuguese Secondary Education programs - practical recommendations

literary sensitivity vs aesthetic illiteracy

Youth literature and  crossover fiction

Andragogy and literature

Portuguese Literatures and World Literature

Critical reading of NLP: criteria, age ranges.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria João Albuquerque Figueiredo Simões

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 30.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 30.0%
Resolution Problems: 40.0%

Bibliography

Alcoforado, J. (2008). Competências, Cidadania e Profissionalidade: limites e desafios para a construção de um modelo português de educação e formação de adultos. Coimbra: FPCE.

Balça, A. & M. Pires (2013).  Literatura infantil e juvenil. Formação de leitores. Santillana, -  Rede Internacional de Universidades Leitoras.

Beckett, S. (2009). Crossover fiction : global and historical perspectives. New York ; London : Routledge.

Calvino, I. (1994).  Porquê Ler os Clássicos. Lisboa: Teorema.

Cano Vela, A. & Valverde, C. (2003). Canon, Literatura infantil y juvenile y otras literaturas. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.

Colomer, T. (1998). La formación del lector literario. Madrid: Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez.

Pina, M. (2007). Dito em voz alta. Entrevistas sobre literatura, isto é, sobre tudo. Coimbra: Pé de Página. 

Pires, M. (2005). Pontes e Fronteiras. Da literatura tradicional à literatura contemporânea,. Lisboa: Caminho.