Full Description
This book re-orients and enriches the existing teaching and learning processes of English language and literature in an Indian context. It foregrounds and critiques the relevance of existential humanities in the classroom (both pedagogy and research), re-contextualizes classroom interactions with reference to everyday lived experiences and ethical choices, and fosters critical humanistic thinking among teachers and learners. It offers a unique perspective on existentialism drawn from various cultures by intertwining it with Indian cultural and philosophical underpinnings, enabling readers worldwide to appreciate the diversity of existential thought. This book introduces lesser-known non-Indian as well as Indian literary works to a global audience, highlighting how existentialism permeates and connects various genres and styles of global writing. It provides insights into how language nuances convey existential ideas in diverse linguistic contexts, encouraging a deeper understanding of how existentialism transcends language barriers. Through a comparative lens, this book enables readers to compare and integrate Indian existential themes with those from other cultural and literary landscapes. It equips educators worldwide with tools to incorporate diverse existential perspectives into classroom discussions, fostering a broader understanding of human experiences across cultures.
This book foregrounds the crisis facing the teaching and learning of language, literature, humanities and social sciences in the post-truth era. It establishes the crucial need to re-invigorate these domains for a truly inclusive, progressive and harmonious society. Most importantly, this volume offers crucial classroom strategies, practical lesson plans and precious insights from classroom experience to teachers and researchers.
Contents
Existential humanities and their relevance in the english language and literature classroom.- Exploring key existential humanities concepts applied in the english language and literature classroom part one.- Exploring key existential humanities concepts applied in the english language and literature classroom part two.- Ethics and practice in the humanities.- English literature teaching and interdisciplinary existential humanities.- Strategies for fostering critical humanistic thinking in the english literature classroom.- Impact of existential humanities on life skills of literature teachers and learners.- Incorporating existential humanities into english language teaching elt curricula.- Existential humanities in the multicultural language classroom.- Existential humanities in digital communication social media and online discourse.- Existential humanities and the challenges of authenticity isolation and connection in the digital classroom.- Learners roles and responses existential humanities and the english classroom in india.- Impact on learners futures encountering existential humanities in the english classroom in india.- Existential humanities in future english classrooms challenges opportunities and transformative potential.
