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Direct linkMelitta Hogarth – English in Australia, 2022
The power of the coloniser within colonial Australia is clear when we consider how central to the teaching and learning and schooling in Australia is the privileging of Standard Australian English. Prior to 1788, the peoples and the lands of this country were abound with languages. That was until the coloniser exerted their power and insisted on a…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Communications, English Curriculum
Joanne O’Mara; Glenn Auld; Yin Paradies; Cassandra Alpium, Contributor; Meaghan Beaucaire, Contributor; Roxene Beech, Contributor; Brittany Bell, Contributor; Rebekkah Cranson, Contributor; Tim Delphine, Contributor; Paul Garner, Contributor; Erin Horton, Contributor; Jennifer Kernahan, Contributor; Catherine Milvain, Contributor; Alicia O’Keefe, Contributor; Martina Polaskova, Contributor; Douglas Rowell, Contributor; Stephanie Savopoulos, Contributor; Benjamin Taylor, Contributor; Kelvin Wong, Contributor; Melanie Whelan, Contributor; Leteasha Yamada, Contributor; Michael Ziemer, Contributor – English in Australia, 2022
The Australian Curriculum provides a warrant for all subject English teachers to enact the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures Cross-curriculum priority (CCP). This priority is 'designed for all students to engage in reconciliation, respect, and recognition of the world's oldest continuous living cultures' (ACARA, n.d.-a).…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries
Kuttainen, Victoria; Hansen, Claire – English in Australia, 2020
Mutual support and dialogue across secondary and tertiary English is vital work in urgent times. In this article, the authors examine Australia's secondary-tertiary English education nexus, building on previous scholarship to explore points of connection and disconnection with a view to identifying sustainable ways of supporting points of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Higher Education, College English
Download full textThwaite, Anne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
This paper gives a brief summary of Halliday's theory of how children learn to talk, illustrating the development of children's language from the microfunctions through the macrofunctions and into the metafunctions of adult language. The paper points to a possible source of the misinterpretation of Halliday's theory in the work of Frank Smith…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Linguistic Theory, English Curriculum, National Curriculum
Yates, Lyn; Davies, Larissa McLean; Buzacott, Lucy; Doecke, Brenton; Mead, Philip; Sawyer, Wayne – Curriculum Journal, 2019
This article takes up questions about knowledge and the school curriculum with respect to literary studies within subject English. Its intention is to focus on literary studies in English from the context of current waves of curriculum reform, rather than as part of the conversations primarily within the field of English, to raise questions about…
Descriptors: Literacy, English Instruction, English Curriculum, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Exley, Beryl; Kervin, Lisa; Mantei, Jessica – English in Australia, 2016
In this article we introduce a heuristic for orientating to the language content of the Australian Curriculum: English. Our pedagogical heuristic, called "Playing with Grammar", moves through three separate but interwoven stages: (i) an introduction to the learning experience, (ii) a focus on learning, and (iii) an application of new…
Descriptors: Grammar, Heuristics, Teaching Methods, English Curriculum
Willis, Linda-Dianne; Exley, Beryl – English in Australia, 2016
The Language Strand of the Australian Curriculum: English (Australian Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2016b) includes the sub-strand of "Language Variation and Change". This sub-strand is a marked space for discovery and discussion of the history and politics of language use. As such, this sub-strand points to…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English Curriculum, Language Usage, Educational History
Doecke, Brenton – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
This essay explores the role that storytelling might play in the professional learning of English teachers. It begins by reflecting on the ways that stories shape our everyday lives, and then considers how the meaning-making potential of storytelling might enable us to gain insights into our work as educators. This is in contradistinction to the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Standards, Standardized Tests, Educational Change
Brock, Paul – English in Australia, 2013
This article is based on the authors' own experience of Garth Boomer as a splendid friend, a superb colleague, and an inspirational leader. In September 2005 the author was invited to deliver the Garth Boomer Memorial Lecture at the Biennial International Conference of the Australian Curriculum Studies Association (ACSA). This article is based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Instruction, English Curriculum, Teaching Styles
Meiers, Marion – English in Australia, 2013
In this article, Marion Meiers reflects on the often-cited address "Literacy: The Epic Challenge Beyond Progressivism" by Garth Boomer at the 1989 joint National Conference of the Australian Reading Association (now the Australian Literacy Educator's Association) and the Australian Association for the Teaching of English at Darin High…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Secondary Education, English Curriculum, Language Arts
Gerrard, Jessica; Albright, James; Clarke, David J.; Clarke, Doug M.; Farrell, Lesley; Freebody, Peter; Sullivan, Peter – Australian Journal of Education, 2013
Under the auspices of its 'Education Revolution', the Federal Labor Government is currently implementing a national curriculum for schools. Representing an important intervention into educational practice and governance, the Australian Curriculum offers a unique research opportunity, providing substantial scope for the examination of the changing…
Descriptors: Educational Research, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Beavis, Catherine; Walsh, Christopher; Bradford, Clare; O'Mara, Joanne; Apperley, Thomas; Gutierrez, Amanda – English in Australia, 2015
The need for English and literacy curriculum to connect with young people's lifeworlds to build bridges and frames of reference that connect traditional English curriculum with digital texts and literacies, are increasing priorities in curriculum frameworks in Australia and elsewhere. This paper reports on a project in which the authors worked…
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Curriculum, Heuristics, Teaching Methods
Humphrey, Sally – English in Australia, 2013
While teachers of English have long recognised the vital role they play in developing students' knowledge and effective use of language, the emergence of the Australian Curriculum: English has led to a great deal of discussion concerning the representation of language and the type of meta-language needed to share understandings of literacy and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Secondary School Students, English Teachers, Teacher Role
Hateley, Erica – English in Australia, 2013
Young adult literature is a tool of socialisation and acculturation for young readers. This extends to endowing "reading" with particular significance in terms of what literature should be read and why. This paper considers some recent young adult fiction with an eye to its engagement with canonical literature and its representations of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, English Instruction
Reid, Ian – English in Australia, 2013
A national survey of senior secondary English curriculum content has confirmed that contemporary literature predominates among set texts, being seen as an "essential" category for study because of its "relevance" in helping students "understand the world in which they live." Perhaps uncontentious -- depending on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Reading Materials, Secondary Education
