South African Modernism (Follow-on-Funding): Decolonising English Literary Studies In and Beyond the Classroom

这一后续项目将通过利用并极大地扩展“南非现代主义1880-2020”项目的影响，带来重大的新利益。我们的原始项目建立了南非作家对全球现代主义做出的基础性、开创性和持续的贡献。这项研究现在正在为16-18岁的学习者和他们的老师带来意想不到的教育、社会和文化利益，支持英国15家继续教育(FE)机构改变英国文学A-Level的教学内容和方法。通过我们拟议的活动计划，我们的目标是将研究主导和去殖民的内容、交付和支持嵌入英国文学教育。我们专注于两个领域：教育(主要是16-18岁的学习者和他们的老师)，以及对文化遗产和全球文学感兴趣的公众受众。该项目的主要目标是(共同)创建一个世界级的、免费提供的关于南非文学的在线教育资源，托管在一个定制的平台上。这将有两个不同的流：a)专家主导的音频、视频和书面内容，包括学者和作家在演播室录制的讲座、视频课程、可下载的课堂资源、测验和其他互动活动；和b)与国际16-18岁的学习者共同制作内容，包括人工智能动画、播客、视频、在线图库、视觉文本、博客文章等。为了实现这一目标，我们将：与英国教师、考试委员会成员和教育合作伙伴建立焦点小组，在全年的四个关键点举行会议，以确保项目的一致性、持续参与、集体行动和对在线项目资源的创建、相关性和使用的本能监测。向英国、瑞典、澳大利亚和南非的16-18岁的学习者和教师提供(至少)100小时的协作内容制作参与活动，直接传递给700多名参与者。制定有针对性的社交媒体战略，在YouTube Short和TikTok上发布专家主导和用户生成的内容，接触到数十万观众，将流量吸引到主网站。在英国、瑞典、澳大利亚和南非举办四项公共活动，包括创意研讨会、公开讲座和学生内容的多媒体展览。制作额外的输出，包括芒斯洛·王和范德维利共同编辑的题为《南非现代主义(正在进行中)》的散文集；博客文章；公共谈话和媒体参与。我们预计我们的活动计划和定制的教育资源平台将：通过将新的主题、课文和教学引入课堂环境，促进和帮助英国和更远地区的英国文学教学和内容的多样化和非殖民化。为16-18岁的学习者产生有意义的教育、文化和社会效益(例如，通过改善归属感、动机、技能、在相关评估部分、教育前景和职业目标方面的成就)。通过活动、在线资源、研究成果、公众演讲和媒体参与。我们将通过焦点小组和考试委员会的反馈、参与者评估表、教师表彰、学生给未来自我的明信片、在线反馈表以及网站和社交媒体平台上的统计信息和评论来跟踪项目的影响。

This follow-on project will deliver major new benefits by capitalising on, and greatly extending, the impacts of the project 'South African Modernism 1880-2020'.Our original project establishes the foundational, pioneering, and ongoing contributions made by South African writers to global modernisms. This research is now generating unforeseen educational, social and cultural benefits for 16-18 year-old learners and their teachers by supporting changed content and methods of teaching of the English Literature A-Level at 15 Further Education (FE) providers in the UK.Through our proposed programme of activities we aim to embed research-led and decolonising content, delivery and support into English Literature education. We focus on two sectors: education (primarily 16-18 year-old learners and their teachers), and public audiences interested in cultural heritage and global literatures.The primary aim of the project is to (co-)create a world-class and freely available online educational resource about South African literature, hosted on a bespoke platform. This will have two distinct streams: a) expert-led audio, video and written content, including studio-recorded lectures delivered by academics and writers, video lessons, downloadable classroom resources, quizzes and other interactive activities; and b) co-produced content with international 16-18 year-old learners, including AI animations, podcasts, videos, online galleries, visual texts, blog posts, etc.To achieve this, we will:Establish focus groups with UK-based teachers, examination board members and educational partnerships meeting at four key points across the year to ensure project coherence, continued participation, collective action and reflexive monitoring of the creation, relevance and use of the online project resources.Deliver (minimum) 100 hours of collaborative content-producing engagement activities to 16-18 year-old learners and teachers across the UK, Sweden, Australia and South Africa, with direct delivery to over 700 participants.Develop a targeted social media strategy by posting expert-led and user-generated content to YouTube Shorts and TikTok, reaching audiences in the hundreds of thousands to drive traffic to the main website.Host four public events in the UK, Sweden, Australia and South Africa, including creative workshops, public lectures, and multi-media exhibitions of student content.Produce additional outputs including a co-edited essay collection by Munslow Ong and Van der Vlies entitled South African Modernisms (in progress); blog posts; public talks and media engagement.We anticipate that our programme of activities and bespoke platform of educational resources will:Advance and aid the diversification and decolonisation of English Literature teaching and content in the UK and further afield by introducing new topics, texts and pedagogies into classroom settings.Generate meaningful educational, cultural and social benefits for 16-18 year-old learners (e.g. through improved sense of belonging, motivation, skills, achievements in relevant assessment components, educational prospects and career goals).Increase public awareness and interest in South African cultural production via events, online resources, research outputs, public talks and media engagements.We will track the impacts of the project through feedback from the focus group and exam boards, participant evaluation forms, teacher testimonials, student 'postcards to my future self', online feedback forms, and statistical information and comments on the website and social media platforms.