We are invited to imagine: using a literary text to encourage cross-cultural dialogue about citizenship |
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| Authors: | Zoltan Varga Nicholas McGuinn Amanda Naylor Hege Emma Rimmereide Ghazal Kazim Syed |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Education, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences , Bergen, Norway zva@hvl.no https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0905-1683;3. Department of Education, University of York , York, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6296-6199;4. Department of Education, University of York , York, UK https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5172-9000;5. Faculty of Education, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences , Bergen, Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1921-5162;6. Institute of English Language and Literature, University of Sindh , Jamshoro, Pakistan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8011-7740 |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT Using William Golding’s Lord of the Flies as a stimulus, researchers from Norway, Pakistan and the United Kingdom explored the potential of a literary text to encourage intercultural dialogue. The innovative research method used was to combine Literature Circles and Google Documents to provide a platform for asynchronous online exchange between three cohorts of students in higher education. The authors’ analysis of the data suggested differences between those students who regarded the text as a living document speaking directly to their personal experiences of citizenship issues and those for whom the novel remained a historical document, removed from their lived experience. The authors contend that this research can contribute original and significant insights to the literature on teaching citizenship through literary texts such as the relationship between text choice and context, models of international collaboration at the higher education level and contrasting approaches towards citizenship and reading. |
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| Keywords: | Teaching citizenship through literature intercultural collaboration in Higher Education Literature Circles online discussion |
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0905-1683;3. Department of Education, University of York , York, UK