International Perspectives on the Teaching of English to Generate Hope Inspiration in an Age of Anxiety

Section I: "We are such stuff": literature to face the future.

1] English and visible darkness: teaching dystopia as an illumination of human potential and hope. Andrew Goodwyn

2] How Poetry Memorisation Can Support Adolescent Mental Health in an Age of Anxiety: A Singapore Case Study. Wai Kit Ow Yeong

3] "It was quite literal writing my feelings through this character": Emerging Tensions of Empathic Response Tasks in Literature Education. Dominic Nah

4] Cultivating eco-consciousness through English (Literature) of the National Curriculum in England. Sophia Kapcia & Linda Enow

5] Envisioning Hope through Shakespeare's Plays. Esther T. Hu

6] Looking for the light in the darkness of school literary texts. Velda Elliott & Paul Riser

Section II: Artificial Intelligence, humanity, creativity and the authentic voice.

7] After raAIn: Art and experiential transdisciplinary composition for future English. Lucinda McKnight Jowen Hillyer Susanne Gannon

8] Interrogating the Implicit Bias of AI: Deconstructing the Harmful Myths of Columbus in Elementary Curricula.

9] Reframing and Reaffirming subject English towards 2050: Teaching to Prioritise the Human Voice in an Age of Machine Generated Writing. Karly Lazarou

10] Inspiration, Creativity, and Engagement: The Arts as a Source of Joy in ELA Teaching.

Section III: Developing and sustaining the lives of teachers in difficult times.

11] Teachers in Community Investigate Pedagogical Practices and Create Potentials for Care.

12] Writing to Fill Your Soul: Revamping the Summer Writing Institute in a Post-Pandemic World. Jennifer L. Greene & Pauline S. Schmidt

13] Mindfulness in Practice: Teachers as Agents of Healing and Growth in the Secondary ELA Classroom. Alanna Harris

14] Adaptive Mindsets Matter: Supporting English Teacher Resilience in the Face of Change and Uncertainty. Melinda B. Orzulak

Section 1V: Teaching for hope and democracy.

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Sophia Kapcia

16] The productivity of negative capability: cultivating metaphoric awareness to secure a better future for subject English.

Caroline Godfrey

17] English Teaching and Pragmatic-Radical Possibility Emeritus. Bill Green

18] 'Liberators for hard times': Generating wild hope and agency in English teaching and learning. Liam Semler, Lauren Weber, Claire Hansen and Jacqueline Manuel

19] Teaching English in fragile times: the use of poetic inquiry to explore workplace tensions and hard hope. Amanda McGraw & Joanne O'Mara

Section V: Social Justice and Critical Literacy.

20] Hope on the Inside: Literacy Practices and the Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders.

Alison Cannell and Cal Durrant

21] (Re)orientating the Secondary English Classroom: Othering the centre. Babita Ginda

22] Challenging the Ontological Power of Media in the English Classroom is Imperative for Identity Transformation. Paul Riser & Daniel Farias

23] A Path to Determining Truth in a World of Too Much Information. Elizabeth Spinner

24] The Gift of a Poem: Sharing Language and Hope in the Prison Classroom. Jedidiah Evans