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Howie, Mark – English in Australia, 2008
In this article I use the occasion of farewelling my Year 12 students at the end of their schooling, some intertextual references to "Hamlet", and some conceptual frames of Derrida, to reflect dialogically on the role of critical literacy in Australian English curricula in the past, the present and into the future. (Contains 11 notes.)
Descriptors: English Curriculum, English Instruction, English Literature, Reflection
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Howie, Mark – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2008
The neo-conservative subjectification of English teachers (as "language technicists" and "preachers of culture") is being resisted in Australia (for example, Doecke, Howie and Sawyer, 2006a). In this climate of contestation, the (re) conceptualisation of English as a critical space promoting social justice cannot be ethical or…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Foreign Countries, Ethics, Advocacy