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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
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Wakefield Press
Australian Association for the Teaching of English
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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. 16-30
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Subjects:
- The Cambridge History of Australian Literature 2009 reference
- The Paradox of Exile 2008 single work criticism
- Telling Stories : Australian Literature in a National English Curriculum 2008 single work criticism
- The Secret River 2005 single work novel
- For Love Alone 1944 single work novel
- 12 Edmondstone Street 1985 single work prose autobiography
- A Spirit of Play : The Making of Australian Consciousness 1998 single work criticism
- Autobiography 2009 single work criticism
- Networked Language : Culture and History in Australian Poetry 2008 single work criticism
- Celebration : Peter Porter 2010 single work biography
- The Unhaunting 2009 selected work poetry
- The End of Longing 2011 single work novel
- Bugger the Bloggers : Old-World Critics Still Count 2010 single work criticism
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