Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom - by Joseph P Haughey (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century Classroom offers fresh takes on teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- About the Author: Dr. Joseph P. Haughey is an associate professor of English education and assistant director of teacher education at Northwest Missouri State University, where he teaches classes in composition, literature, and education.
- 210 Pages
- Performing Arts, Theater
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About the Book
Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century Classroom offers fresh takes on teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet. Each chapter provides learning objectives, guides, discussion questions, film-based strategies, and activities that embrace students' role in meaning-making.Book Synopsis
Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century Classroom offers fresh takes on teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet. Each chapter provides learning objectives, guides, discussion questions, film-based strategies, and activities that embrace students' role in meaning-making.
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In this valuable and more-than-helpful text, Dr. Haughey tackles the many challenges of teaching this iconic Shakespeare play to contemporary American students. Each chapter includes issues, questions, and activities honed over many years in the classroom that will not only guide students through the hazards of Hamlet but offer to teachers who read and use this book, ideas that will carry them through the more difficult parts of teaching, not just Hamlet, but all of Shakespeare. In Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom, 'the play IS the thing!
Joseph Haughey states that 'Hamlet is a play meant to teach readers how to think, ' and in the carefully designed and multi-layered chapters that follow, he proves to be a brilliant guide for enabling students to engage with the play and learn about themselves through such thinking.
About the Author
Dr. Joseph P. Haughey is an associate professor of English education and assistant director of teacher education at Northwest Missouri State University, where he teaches classes in composition, literature, and education. His other research interests beyond Hamlet include incorporating graphic novels in antiracist pedagogies, the use of graphic adaptations in teaching canonical texts, the historical analysis of Shakespeare's evolving role in American education, and general issues more broadly in teacher preparation, critical literacy, antiracism in schools, and rural education. Before joining the faculty at Northwest, Dr. Haughey taught middle and high school ELA in California and Alaska.
