The Future of Education

Edition 14

Accepted Abstracts

The Importance of Teaching Literature in Secondary Education

Gultas Kurmanbay, Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan)

Gulnaz Kalambayeva, Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan)

Abstract

In current time, one of the important tasks of modern schools is to prepare highly educated student who can think creatively and independently in any situation. In realization of this task, literature, as a school discipline which forms the inner world and valuable orientations of students, plays a large role (Appleman, 2000). Study of literature can have crucial importance in education of the independent personality possessing esthetical taste.
Soetart (2006) considers that the subject of literature as a critical study of literary texts. He clarifies that one the main aims of the subject is the critical analysis of how language is used in different types of texts for identify meaning and find out text elements. With the help of reading various literary texts, students in secondary education of modern schools can receive skills of critical analysis through connecting the meaning of these texts with their lives and the world. In addition, teaching literature in secondary education can provide ability to imagine inner and outer worlds of any substance, to solve and investigate important, present and future problems individually.
A considerable number of scholars and studies have attempted to describe the importance of this discipline. One of the descriptions was in terms of cultural values of specific countries which can be received from literature (Hirsch, 1987); another one was about the reinforcing the academic curriculum of schools (Bennett, 1988). According to these views, this paper will attempt to examine the level of importance of teaching literature in secondary education as a part of curriculum.

Keywords: Literature, culture, critical thinking, curriculum, secondary education; 

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