Nieuwe verhoudingen: de literaire ontmanteling van het neoliberale nepotisme

Abstract

This master thesis examines which characteristics a contemporary ideology-critical reading of literary texts must meet in order to contribute to civic education in upper secondary education. The main aim is to develop scientific didactics that contribute to both the literary development and the civic development of the pupil. It is also important to reduce the distance that has arisen between the school subject of Dutch and literary studies. This educational design study consists of both a development and a validation study. In the first part, design principles are developed that form the basis for educational design in the form of teaching materials. In the validation study that follows, the teaching material is presented to an expert group of Dutch teachers and the editors of LitLab. The main design principles are as follows: first of all, the literary texts should represent the ideological characteristics of the current era. In addition, the literary texts must be presented thematically and in context. This also applies to didactics, which in addition should be multidisciplinary, dialogical, multiperspectivistic and intermediate. Finally, it is important to integrate different language skills in the didactics. Neoliberalism is central to the didactic design that has been developed on the basis of these design principles for validation. This theme is elaborated on on the basis of literary fragments from a recently published novel, a collection of poems and a short story. The digital LitLab format was used for this design, in particular to guarantee an intermediate and context-rich didactics. The expert group and the LitLab editorial team identified the complexity of the material as a potential threat to the implementation of the design. Possible follow-up research in which the material is presented to a student population should support or refute this hypothesis.