Designed for second- and third-year Spanish conversation courses, Conversaciones creadoras offers a dynamic, learner-centered approach to developing oral communication skills and cultural competence. A preliminary chapter presents the objectives, approach, and structure of the text, as well as useful learning strategies and "ice-breaking" activities. The following 12 chapters contain a strong pedagogical apparatus that requires students to use Spanish to resolve meaningful conflicts.

Conversaciones Creadoras

Brown, Joan L.

Hiller, Renate

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

This conversation text implements a dynamic, learner-centered approach that encourages students to use Spanish to resolve meaningful and emotionally charged conflicts. A carefully crafted pedagogical apparatus featuring Conversaciones creadoras mini-dramas, written by renowned Spanish novelist Carmen Martin Gaite, challenges students to become active participants in the learning process.

Conversaciones creadoras: Mastering Spanish Conversation (English and Spanish Edition)

Education & Teaching

Gaite, Carmen Martin

Schools & Teaching

Houghton/Mifflin

Designed for second- and third-year Spanish conversation courses, Conversaciones creadoras offers a dynamic, learner-centered approach to developing oral communication skills and cultural competence. A preliminary chapter presents the objectives, approach, and structure of the text, as well as useful learning strategies and "ice-breaking" activities. The following 12 chapters contain a strong pedagogical apparatus that requires students to use Spanish to resolve meaningful conflicts.

Politics & Social Sciences

D.C. Heath & Co.

Do not judge a book by its cover. Evil may be good and good may be evil. A serial killer haunts St. Mary?s. Even the cops wonder if people go there to pray or to die.

God Had a Breaking Point

Biographies & Memoirs

Brown Jr., Victor C.

Leaders & Notable People

1st Book Library

"Confident and authoritative, Well-Written and balanced, provocative and controversial: this is an excellent book, a call to arms and action, that all shapers and readers of literary canons should study with care."---David T. Gies University of VirginiaWhat is canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. Only then can educators take charge of their teaching canons and, by extension, their disciplines. Brown demonstrates that there is little agreement in the reported teaching canons in English and Spanish. Analyzing twentieth- and twenty-first-century required graduate reading lists in Spanish and Latin American literature in the United States, she finds that the core literary canon for graduate students is less comprehensive than the Spanish Advanced Placement reading list for high school students. She encourages the field of Hispanic studies---curators of the cultural patrimony of our country's second language---to take the lead in developing a diverse, flexible, shared foundational canon at the graduate level, before the arbiters of "best practices" do this for us.An Introductory chapter explains the power of canons and acquaints readers with the book. Chapter 1 contextualizes today's issues by reviewing the history of canon formation over time, crystallizing the evaluative and sociocultural functions of canons. Chapter 2 theorizes the types of canons that currently exist, from the dual internal canons in each person's mind to consensus in the fields of English and Spanish. Chapter 3 describes the canon in Spanish and Latin American literature, apprehended through a late twentieth-century statistical analysis of required graduate reading lists; this chapter also provides a guided tour of masterpieces in Spanish, nearly all of which are available in English translation. Chapter 4 exposes this canon's missing contents and uses readinglist data from the twenty-first century to trace the persistence of gaps. Chapter 5 draws out the implications of statistical findings to chart the factors that make a work, and by extension an author, canonical. Chapter 6 reviews canons past and present, then advocates the disciplinary construction of a continually evolving consensus canon for Spanish and Latin American graduate education. While these recommendations feature Hispanic studies as a model, they are applicable to all literary fields and to other areas in the humanities.

Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

UNKNO

Confronting Our Canons

What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. Only then can educators take charge of their teaching canons and, by extension, their disciplines. Brown demonstrates that there is little agreement in the reported teaching canons in English and Spanish. Analyzing twentieth- and twenty-first-century required graduate reading lists in Spanish and Latin American literature in the United States, she finds that the core literary canon for graduate students is less comprehensive than the Spanish Advanced Placement reading list for high school students. She encourages the field of Hispanic studies—curators of the cultural patrimony of our country's second language—to take the lead in developing a diverse, flexible, shared foundational canon at the graduate level, before the arbiters of "best practices" do this for us.

Reference

Bucknell University Press

What is a canon and why does it matter? In Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century, Joan L. Brown shows that a canon has the power to define a field and determine what is taught. She argues that it is both productive and necessary to confront our canons, to see what is actually in them and how these works and authors got there. Only then can educators take charge of their teaching canons and, by extension, their disciplines. Brown demonstrates that there is little agreement in the reported teaching canons in English and Spanish. Analyzing twentieth- and twenty-first-century required graduate reading lists in Spanish and Latin American literature in the United States, she finds that the core literary canon for graduate students is less comprehensive than the Spanish Advanced Placement reading list for high school students. She encourages the field of Hispanic studies—curators of the cultural patrimony of our country's second language—to take the lead in developing a diverse, flexible, shared foundational canon at the graduate level, before the arbiters of "best practices" do this for us.

Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite (Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures)

Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite explores the last six novels by Spain´s most honored contemporary woman writer. Its scholarship is enriched by the voice of Calila herself--as Brown called Martín Gaite, who was a dear friend--as they conversed and exchanged letters during the composition of the novels. The book opens with an introduction to Martín Gaite´s life and literature and ends with a consideration of her legacy. Each central chapter analyzes a later novel in its historical, biographical, and critical contexts. From the young adult fantasy Caperucita en Manhattan&nbsp;(Red Riding Hood in Manhattan) to the post-Transition epistolary masterpiece Nubosidad variable&nbsp;(Variable Cloud), the Transition-era saga La Reina de las Nieves&nbsp;(The Farewell Angel), the Proustian reminiscence Lo raro es vivir&nbsp;(Living's the Strange Thing), the narrative tapestry Irse de casa&nbsp;(Leaving Home), and the memoir of family secrets Los parentescos (Family Relations), these fascinating novels evoke themes that resonate today. &nbsp;

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Conversaciones Creadoras

Conversaciones creadoras: Mastering Spanish Conversation (English and Spanish Edition)

Conversaciones Creadoras

God Had a Breaking Point

Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century

Confronting Our Canons: Spanish and Latin American Studies in the 21st Century

Confronting Our Canons

Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite (Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures)

Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite (Campos Ibéricos: Bucknell Studies in Iberian Literatures and Cultures)