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Originally Posted by Patricia
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No surprise: the first step is reaching the students, and giving them something they can grasp to take the next step in discovery. If Star Trek provides a hook to hang subsequent teaching on, why not?
I was bemused a couple of years ago, when I met a woman who taught English at a community college in what her boyfriend described as a "mill town". Her students seldom read, and celebrity bios of popular sports or entertainment figures tended to be the height of their literary attempts. Yet the work of the late Octavia Butler (SF writer and MacArthur Grant winner) connected with them. I wondered what about her work attracted them, and she wasn't sure, save that Olivia's work tended to be about outsiders, and these kids were - they were in a depressed area with slim chance of escaping a marginal existence, and knew it. I knew Olivia slightly, and I think she'd have been delighted that her work reached them.
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Dennis