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'The Great War has been represented in Australian curricula since 1914, in texts with tones ranging from bellicose patriotism to idealistic pacifism. Australian curricula have included war literature as one way of transmitting cultural values, values that continue to evolve as successive generations relate differently to war and peace. Changes in ethical perspectives and popular feeling have guided text selection and pedagogy, so that texts which were once accepted as foundational to Australian society seem, at later times, to document civilisation's ruin.
In recent years, overseas texts have been preferred above Australian examples as mediators of the Great War, an event still held by many to be of essential importance to Australia. This paper first considers arguments for including Great War texts on the national curriculum, exploring what war literature can, and cannot, be expected to bring to the program. Interrogating the purpose/s of war literature in the curriculum and the ways in which the texts may be used to meet such expectations, the paper then discusses styles of war texts and investigates whether there is a case for including more texts by Australian authors.' (Author's abstract)
In recent years, overseas texts have been preferred above Australian examples as mediators of the Great War, an event still held by many to be of essential importance to Australia. This paper first considers arguments for including Great War texts on the national curriculum, exploring what war literature can, and cannot, be expected to bring to the program. Interrogating the purpose/s of war literature in the curriculum and the ways in which the texts may be used to meet such expectations, the paper then discusses styles of war texts and investigates whether there is a case for including more texts by Australian authors.' (Author's abstract)
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Ruins or Foundations : Great War Literature in the Australian Curriculum
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- In Flanders Fields 2002 single work picture book
- My Grandad Marches on Anzac Day 2006 single work picture book
- Simpson and His Donkey 2008 single work picture book
- Bread and Honey 1970 single work novel
- Candles at Dawn 1997 single work novel
- The Silver Donkey : A Novel for Children 2004 single work children's fiction
- Fly Away Peter 1982 single work novella
- Boys of Blood and Bone 2003 single work novel
- Black Water 2007 single work novel
- A Rose for the Anzac Boys 2008 single work novel
- Barbed Wire and Roses 2007 single work novel
- Bereft 2010 single work novel
- As the Earth Turns Silver 2009 single work novel
- And in the Morning 2002 single work novel
- The Wing of Night 2005 single work novel
- Traitor 2010 single work novel
- Passport to Hell 1990-1999 single work novel
- Crucible : An Australian First World War Novel 1935 single work novel
- Backs to the Wall 1937 single work autobiography
- The Desert Column : Leaves from the Diary of an Australian Trooper in Gallipoli, Sinai and Palestine 1932 single work autobiography diary correspondence
- Flesh in Armour : A Novel 1932 single work novel
- The Middle Parts of Fortune : Somme and Ancre, 1916 1929 single work novel
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