‘Who controls the past controls the future’ Benefits and Challenges of Teaching Young Adult Dystopian Fiction

Abstract

With the paper Benefits and Challenges of Teaching Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Alfes Guttke, Lipari & Wilden discuss the enormous potential of dystopian young adult fiction for foreign language learning and present findings of an interview study investigating secondary teachers’ experiences with teaching dystopian narratives in German schools.

Keywords

• ya fiction; dystopian narratives; meaningful texts; interview study