"It Makes You Realize, Really, Just How Deep Your Subtext Is": Literature, Subjectivity, and Curriculum Change.

Beavis, Catherine

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ERIC Number: EJ630755

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2001

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"It Makes You Realize, Really, Just How Deep Your Subtext Is": Literature, Subjectivity, and Curriculum Change.

Beavis, Catherine

Research in the Teaching of English, v36 n1 p38-63 Aug 2001

Explores complex relationships between teachers (in Victoria, Australia) and curriculum change. Explores ways in which the teachers' positioning within a mix of discourses and settings variously supported or undermined their preparedness to accept new configurations of the subject Literature as well as the implications of curriculum change not just for constructions of the subject but also for teacher subjectivity. (SG)

Descriptors: Critical Theory, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Discourse Analysis, English Curriculum, English Instruction, English Teachers, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Literature, Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia

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