AJ0508 Reading the World Through Irony: Swift's Methods for Modern Educators

Pedagogická fakulta
podzim 2025
Rozsah
12 hodin ve 4 blocích. 3 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučováno kontaktně
Vyučující
Mgr. Jiří Šalamoun, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Mgr. Jiří Šalamoun, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Rozvrh
Po 10. 11. 13:00–16:50 kancelář vyučujícího, St 12. 11. 13:00–16:50 kancelář vyučujícího, Pá 14. 11. 9:00–12:50 kancelář vyučujícího
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Cíle předmětu
This course will examine how the great Irish writer Jonathan Swift uses a complex combination of rhetorical, pedagogical, and satirical techniques to educate, instruct, and provoke his audience into thinking critically. Looking at a handful of texts by Swift, we will analyze how they stimulate critical thinking and can be used to help modern students better understand the world they live in. His essays on education, language, and effective communication will be considered as a framework for his brilliant satires, "A Modest Proposal" and "Gulliver's Travels." Ultimately, by engaging with Swift's work as a model for mentorship, students in this course will sharpen the critical thinking skills essential for their future roles as effective and engaging educators.
Výstupy z učení
After taking part in this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze sociopolitical and ethical issues and develop strategies for teaching these topics to their own students.
- Recognize the crucial role of satire in unmasking society’s corruptions and challenging conventions.
- Appreciate how the study of literature offers important pedagogic tools for enabling students to think more critically and independently.
- Adapt Swift's methods to create their own materials for fostering critical insight in the modern classroom.
Osnova
  • Major Satires: "A Modest Proposal" and excerpts from "Gulliver's Travels."
  • "On Modern Education"
  • Excerpts from "A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately entered into Holy Orders."
Metody hodnocení
Along with class attendance and active participation in discussions, students will write a short paper on one of the following topics:

1) Which aspects of Swift's writings do you find most useful as a future teacher?

2) How would you teach "Gulliver's Travels" to a class of students with personal experience with the travails of travel and the clash of different cultures?

3) Write your own "Modest Proposal" to 'solve' a current problem in your society, explaining how the use of irony can help your students gain insight into their world and their role in it.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
The course will take place during the following days in the dean's office:
Monday, November 10, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, November 12, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Friday, November 14, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM


Day One readings:
From the Penguin edition of Swift's Writings:

The Intelligencer Number III [Defence of The Beggar’s Opera] (pp. 217-222); Number IX [‘On Modern Education’] (pp. 222-229); "A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders (pp. 109-127.); The Tatler, Number CCXXX (pp. 51-55); from The Bickerstaff Papers (pp. 15-32); An Argument against the Abolishing of Christianity in England (pp. 38-50); The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Elliston (pp. 149-153); from The Examiner: No. 14 [‘The Art of Political Lying’] (pp. 61-66); No. 20 (pp. 66-71); An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions, and Enormities, in the City of Dublin (pp. 240-254).


Day Two readings:
From the Penguin edition of Swift’s Writings:

The Story of the Injured Lady, and the Answer (pp. 7-14); A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture (pp. 130-137); from The Drapier’s Letters: Letter I (pp. 155-164); Letter IV (pp. 165-181); [On] the Execution of William Wood (pp. 182-186).

From the edition of Swift’s Irish Writings:
from The Drapier’s Letters: Letter V (pp. 71-83); Doing Good: A Sermon (pp. 85-91); An Excellent New Song on a Seditious Pamphlet (pp. 199-200); Whitshed’s Motto on his Coach (pp. 219-220); An Excellent New Ballad; or the True English Dean to be Hanged for a Rape (pp. 253-256); The Yahoo’s Overthrow (pp. 261-264); Ay and No, A Tale from Dublin (pp. 275-276).


Day Three readings:
From the Penguin edition of Swift’s Writings): A Short View of the Irish Nation (pp. 216); A Modest Proposal (pp. 230-239).

From the edition of Swift’s Irish Writings: Maxim’s Controlled in Ireland (pp. 117-122).

From The Norton Edition of Gulliver’s Travels: Gulliver’s Travels: Parts I and II (pp. vii-124); Part Three (pp. 139-159); Part IV (pp. 191-260).

Excerpts from the Correspondence re GT (pp. 263-271).
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