Abstract

This essay examines the challenges and opportunities that characterize teaching literature in contemporary high schools and colleges—an educational milieu that has become increasingly dominated by standardized testing, skills assessment, and careerism.

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Pedagogy
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2017-01-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-3658350
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