Teacher Trainees Telling Tales

Autor: Iaomie Malik, Eleanor Barker, Lawrence McNally, Jordan Hawkesworth, Rachel Hambly, Anya Morrice, Benjamin Connor, Daisy Knox, Steven Hunt, Jaspal Ubhi, Giorgio Molteni, Clare Mahon, Aleksandra Ruczynska
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of Classics Teaching. 21:52-80
ISSN: 2058-6310
DOI: 10.1017/s2058631020000082
Popis: Trainees were encouraged to tell a mythological story to the class, lasting about ten minutes. They could use props and other visual aids if they wished, but the emphasis was for them to practise speaking before the class, using prompt cards if necessary, and employing all the techniques of a professional oral ‘poet’ – such as gesture, eye contact, tone of voice and so on. There is obviously considerable general interest among younger students about mythology. Locally, interest is captured by the Cambridge School Classics project which puts on an annual Ovid Mythology competition and the website War with Troy is used by several of the schools where trainees are placed. Its use as a stimulus for learning has been well-documented by its author and past PGCE subject lecturer Bob Lister (2005, 2007) and by Walker (2018), a former teacher trainee from the faculty. Some of the Latin textbooks such as Minimus (Bell, 1999) and Suburani (Hands-Up Education, 2020) contain myth episodes and are familiar to the teacher trainees. The GCSE and A Level qualifications often contain mythological subject matter. Khan-Evans (2018) has shown how older students of Classics have retained deep-rooted affection for mythological stories in their earlier schooldays. Research into the power of mythological storytelling as a stimulus for learning, creative arts and even therapy is current, as the Our Mythical Childhood project (2020) has demonstrated. A book of the project's work is eagerly anticipated next year. The recent Troy exhibition at the British Museum has also awoken considerable interest.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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