Teachers in Novels

Course content

In this class, you will get acquainted with a number of novels from various countries about teachers and their educational work (in English resp. translated into English). However, this course will differ from a literature studies class, because we will make a transfer and consider what we can learn from those teachers for our (future) profession. Therefore, important moments in the novel will be in the focus and we will read small sections and transpose them into improvised dialogues or illustrations. We will think about how we are similar/different to those teacher personalities and whether we might adopt their approach.