Teaching and Learning Ethico-ontology from Light in August in Globalized Pre-service Education

초록

This paper explores and examines the meaning of teaching and learning through a critical recounting of my own experience teaching William Faulkner's novel, Light in August, to Korean pre-service graduate students from the English Education Department in order to test ethico-ontological pedagogy. Also, I try to propose students' differentiated perception and understanding of education contextualized with ethical inquiries of humanity and the political inquiries of social justice. Here, I claim that teaching literature opens and transcends students normal everyday experience to guide them, if painfully, to confront challenging ethical and political questions of education in the differential space created through imagination. William Faulkner's American South in the 1930s in Light in August presents a differential space that transcends Korean graduate students' experience upon which unfolds the shaky ground of humanity and meaning of social justice.

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