ABSTRACT Using William Golding’s Lord of the Flies as a stimulus, researchers from Norway, Pakistan and the United Kingdom explored the potential of a literary text to encourage intercultural dialogue. The innovative research method used was to combine Literature Circles and Google Documents to provide a platform for asynchronous online exchange between three cohorts of students in higher education. The authors’ analysis of the data suggested differences between those students who regarded the text as a living document speaking directly to their personal experiences of citizenship issues and those for whom the novel remained a historical document, removed from their lived experience. The authors contend that this research can contribute original and significant insights to the literature on teaching citizenship through literary texts such as the relationship between text choice and context, models of international collaboration at the higher education level and contrasting approaches towards citizenship and reading.

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我们受邀想象：使用文学文本鼓励关于公民身份的跨文化对话

摘要 来自挪威、巴基斯坦和英国的研究人员利用威廉·戈尔丁的《蝇王》作为刺激因素，探索了文学文本在鼓励跨文化对话方面的潜力。所采用的创新研究方法是结合文学圈和谷歌文档，为三批高等教育学生之间的异步在线交流提供平台。作者对数据的分析表明，那些将文本视为直接讲述公民问题个人经历的活文件的学生与那些将小说保留为历史文件、脱离了他们的生活经历的学生之间存在差异。