World Literature and Transformative Learning: Reading and Teaching Season of Migration to the North in Swedish Upper Secondary School

• This study investigates how Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (2006) can be read and taught as an example of world literature in accordance with the transformative and culturally empowering ambitions of the Swedish upper secondary school curriculum.A total of18 third-yearstudents inthe upper secondary science programme read the novel and recorded their reading experiences in journals. These journals have been thematically analysed,and the results show that the students’ processes of deconstructingand reconstructing the finalised reading,using literary concepts,help forward estrangement effects, which produce critical readings. As the students read for the plot and closedin on the end, their text-centred understandings of the novel wereheightened, and by actively using subject-specific terminology (i.e. stylistic devices and modes of reading concepts),they strengthened the sense-making of their relations to the world as mediated through the text. Frames of reference about historical andcurrent Sudan support the students in allowing the novel to become a merging point, at which their cultural horizons are nuanced through the juxtaposing of different perspectives. The students’ meta-reflexive readings allow for experiencing culture on the move as part of their transformative learning.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Litteraturdidaktik

Transformativt lärande

Gymnasiet

Världslitteratur

Utvandringens tid

Lärarutbildning och pedagogisk yrkesverksamhet

Teacher Education and Education Work

Publikations- och innehållstyp

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