Transdisciplinary Shakespeare Pedagogy

This Element describes how relevance and interdisciplinarity combine to build powerful courses for students of different disciplines.

Coen Heijes (Author)

9781009564298, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 February 2025

114 pages
17.7 x 12.5 x 0.7 cm, 0.12 kg

'One reads Coen Heijes's minigraph, about teaching Shakespeare across a range of very different courses to a mixture of international students from disparate disciplines at the University of Groningen, with a certain amount of envy. In this splendid and engaging book, Heijes sets out the details of four of his courses, the development of which seems to be unhampered by the unhelpful (some might say hostile) bureaucracy with which so many UK academics are forced to grapple.' Peter J. Smith, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies

Building on a general trend in academia towards convergence in teaching and research, in which interdisciplinarity and relevance are cornerstones, Transdisciplinary Shakespeare Pedagogy offers a sense both of the opportunities and challenges in teaching Shakespeare beyond the confines of the English literature department by setting up structural partnerships across disciplinary units and provides possible ways forward on the road to wider cooperation, collaboration and integration between curriculums, teachers and students of different disciplines. With Shakespeare studies increasingly under fire, the author analyses, through four recent case studies of university courses for a variety of students, the potential for integration of Shakespeare studies, social sciences and societal challenges.

1. Introduction
2. Initial steps: Shakespeare and management
3. Widening the terrain: Shakespeare, leadership and twenty-first century challenges
4. Transdisciplinary teaching: Shakespeare, social justice and collaboration
5. Crossing borders: international transdisciplinarity
6. Conclusion
References.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]