Revitalizing the Literature and Writing Studies Classroom: Teaching, Technology, and Student Learning
The challenges of teaching humanities in today’s increasingly polarized political climate are profound. Educators find themselves at the intersection of diverse ideologies, cultural tensions, and barriers students may face in their access to education. The humanities classroom is also changing. Educators are teaching students with different needs and experiences while also responding to changes in technology and the ways students read, write, research, and learn.
Volume 6 of Watchung Review call for scholarly articles, pedagogical models and interventions, and creative pieces that engage with the challenge of navigate evolving student needs, technological shifts, and cultural transformations without losing the richness and relevance of literature and writing.
We are particularly interested in submissions that address the following areas:
- Creating inclusive classrooms
- Teaching strategies for literature, writing, and related disciplines
- Student-centered and experiential learning practices
- Interdisciplinary approaches and collaborative learning
- Creative assignments and multimodal projects
- Alternative assessment methods
- Assessment and student engagement in hybrid and online courses
- Using digital tools and technology in humanities classrooms
- The role of artificial intelligence and other technologies in humanities education
- Fostering the informed consumption of digital and media literacy
- Promoting ethics and responsibility in and beyond the classroom
- Responding to book bans and restrictions on content through creative writing
- Anticipating and responding to student resistance to sensitive topics
- The relationship between K-12 education on higher education
- Demonstrating the transferability of the skills learned in the literature and writing classroom to career paths
- Poetry and fiction that engage with these topics
