International Perspectives on the Teaching of English to Generate Hope

Andrew Goodwyn is President of the International Federation for the Teaching of English and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. He is Emeritus Professor at The University of Reading where he was Head of the Institute of Education.Cal Durrant retired as Associate Professor in English Curriculum and Director of the Literacy Research Hub at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney.Marshall George holds an endowed chair, the Olshan Professor of Clinical Practice, at Hunter College of the City University of New YorkJacqueline Manuel was Professor of English Education in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia.Wayne Sawyer is Emeritus Professor in the School of Education at Western Sydney University, Australia.Melanie Shoffner is a professor of English education at James Madison University, USA.

• 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 Yeong3] “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. Hu6] 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 Gannon8] Interrogating the Implicit Bias of AI: Deconstructing the Harmful Myths of Columbus in Elementary Curricula. Lyndsey A. Benharris, Katharine Covino & Renée R. Fratantonio9] 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.Wendy R. Williams, Toby Emert, Christian Z. Goering, Stephen Goss, Katherine Macro, Pauline S. Schmidt, and Michelle Zoss Section III: Developing and sustaining the lives of teachers in difficult times.11] Teachers in Community Investigate Pedagogical Practices and Create Potentials for Care.Ashleigh A. Allen 12] Writing to Fill Your Soul: Revamping the Summer Writing Institute in a Post-Pandemic World. Jennifer L. Greene & Pauline S. Schmidt13] 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.15] Intersectional Classrooms as Pathways to Resilience in an Age of Crisis.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 Green18] ‘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’MaraSection V: Social Justice and Critical Literacy.20] Hope on the Inside: Literacy Practices and the Rehabilitation of Juvenile Offenders.Alison Cannell and Cal Durrant21] (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