Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Profiles of Practice: Influences When Selecting Texts to Include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in English
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'The subject of English offers a unique context to embed Indigenous perspectives for the benefit of all students through its availability and variety of text choices. Currently, the New South Wales (NSW) English Syllabus requires teachers to include texts which provide 'insights into Aboriginal experiences in Australia' (NESA, 2012). With no structured auditing method for this inclusion, there is room to further understand how teachers select texts to include Indigenous perspectives. This paper will present some factors influencing text selection when including Indigenous perspectives through four teacher profiles. It presents four teacher profiles to explore some influences on their text selections when including Indigenous perspectives. It is a snapshot of decision-making for class texts identified from semi-structured qualitative conversations with four Western Sydney English teachers. The study aims to provide some insight into the process of embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives through text selection in Years 7-10 English.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon English in Australia vol. 57 no. 1 2022 26448668 2022 periodical issue

    'The authors argue that although reform can lead to agentic reinvigoration of practice, it can also have negative effects on teachers' practices and wellbeing when rapid, whole-sale shifts are made. The alternative, to be subject to the discourse of 'curriculism', with its compromises on content and emphasis on cumulative learning and linear progression through learning 'levels', is described in Homer's 1994 keynote address. Homer argues that, as experts in the skills of textual analysis, it is fitting that English teachers 'should be at the forefront of making such analyses' of curriculum; a timely reminder this year as the revised Australian Curriculum is released, of the empowering benefits of reading curriculum texts analytically and critically, attending closely to the way they construct students, teachers and 'knowledge'.' (Publication summary)

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