Shifting Focus

Literature lends itself particularly well to an exploration of the strange, having often contained portraits of outsiders, people who are strange in their unusual appearance or actions, as well as those who come from strange worlds. This collection focuses on different literary works, which all explore the central theme of ‘strangers and strangeness’. This book demonstrates that there is considerable educative value in encountering, experiencing and reflecting upon that which is strange, allowing us to learn that what at first seems strange is rather closer to us than we had previously imagined. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy & Theory.