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Magwitch Madness : Archive Fever and the Teaching of Australian Literature in Subject English
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2011
Magwitch Madness : Archive Fever and the Teaching of Australian Literature in Subject English
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Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings
Brenton Doecke
(editor),
Larissa McLean-Davies
(editor),
Philip Mead
(editor),
Kent Town
:
Wakefield Press
Australian Association for the Teaching of English
,
2011
Z1851330
2011
anthology
criticism
'What role should Australian literature play in the school curriculum? What principles should guide our selection of Australian texts? To what extent should concepts of the nation and a national identity frame the study of Australian writing? What do we imagine Australian literature to be? How do English teachers go about engaging their students in reading Australian texts?
This volume brings together teachers, teacher educators, creative writers and literary scholars in a joint inquiry that takes a fresh look at what it means to teach Australian literature. The immediate occasion for the publication of these essays is the implementation of The Australian Curriculum: English, which several contributors subject to critical scrutiny. In doing so, they question the way that literature teaching is currently being constructed by standards-based reforms, not only in Australia but elsewhere.
The essays assembled in this volume transcend the divisions that have sometimes marred debates about the place of Australian literature in the school curriculum. They all recognise the complexity of what secondary English teachers do in their efforts to engage young people in a rich and meaningful curriculum. They also highlight the need for both secondary and tertiary educators to cultivate an awareness of the cultural and intellectual traditions that mediate their professional practice and to encourage a critically responsive pedagogy.' (Publisher's blurb)
Kent Town : Wakefield Press Australian Association for the Teaching of English , 2011 pg. 129-152
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y
Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings
Brenton Doecke
(editor),
Larissa McLean-Davies
(editor),
Philip Mead
(editor),
Kent Town
:
Wakefield Press
Australian Association for the Teaching of English
,
2011
Z1851330
2011
anthology
criticism
'What role should Australian literature play in the school curriculum? What principles should guide our selection of Australian texts? To what extent should concepts of the nation and a national identity frame the study of Australian writing? What do we imagine Australian literature to be? How do English teachers go about engaging their students in reading Australian texts?
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Subjects:
- Jack Maggs 1997 single work novel
- Wanting 2008 single work novel
- Sixty Lights 2004 single work novel
- Year of Wonders : A Novel of the Plague 2001 single work novel
- Dark Heart of Desire 2008 single work review
- A Canon We Can't Afford to Overlook 2007 single work column
- Proximate Reading : Australian Literature in Transnational Reading Frameworks 2010 single work criticism
- After the Celebration : Australian Fiction 1989-2007 2009 selected work criticism
- Telling Stories : Australian Literature in a National English Curriculum 2008 single work criticism
- Building Bridges : Classic Australian Texts and Critical Theory in the Senior English Classroom 2009 single work criticism