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Green, Bill – English in Education, 2023
All too often lost in the pressure and intensity of the current practice of English teachers and literacy educators is due acknowledgement of the continuing importance of history. This paper brings together two concerns: the work of Margaret Meek Spencer as a key figure in the history of English teaching, reading pedagogy and literacy education,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, English Instruction, Literacy Education, Literature Appreciation
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Lindsay Cesari – Knowledge Quest, 2022
The author takes the experience of book challenges as an opportunity for positive curricular changes by walking readers through the development of a formalized procedure for selecting new, diverse texts to add to the English Language Arts (ELA) program curriculum. The text-selection committee arrived at a six-step method: (1) Identify Desired…
Descriptors: Diversity, Novels, Language Arts, English Curriculum
Farnham, Lija; Nothmann, Emma – Bridgespan Group, 2023
EL Education, originally called Expeditionary Learning, supports a network of 150 pre-K-12 public schools in 30 states and has launched an open source K-8 English language arts curriculum that has been downloaded more than 10 million times across 45 states. EL Education advocates a three-dimensional view of student achievement that puts character…
Descriptors: Language Arts, English Curriculum, Elementary School Curriculum, Public Schools
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Shekema S. Dunlop – English Journal, 2021
Teachers sharing music in their classrooms is all about establishing a sense of mutual trust and respect for their students. Shekema S. Dunlap invites her students into the innermost sanctums of her world and humbly ask that they allow her into theirs. The sharing of music becomes an exchange among equals, forcing their learning space. In this…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Teaching Methods, English Curriculum, African American Teachers
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Melitta 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
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White, John Wesley; Ali-Khan, Carolyne – English Education, 2020
Contemporary research in critical multicultural education and cultural studies has demonstrated how race, class, gender, and sexual orientation affect students' educational experiences, their academic success, and the formation of their identities inside and outside of school. These studies show that youth identity--especially race, class, gender,…
Descriptors: Sex, Sexuality, Language Arts, English Curriculum
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Sonia Q. Cabell; HyeJin Hwang – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
Well-established theoretical models and a body of empirical research elucidate the critical role of content knowledge in comprehending texts. However, the potential of supporting knowledge in service of enhancing linguistic and reading comprehension has been a relatively neglected topic in the science of reading. The authors explicate why…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Primary Education, Language Arts, English Instruction
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Aryal, Bhushan; Bluemel, Brody; Nurse, A. Myrna – Composition Forum, 2022
This approach article describes the structure of the new Composition and Speech Program at Delaware State University, particularly in light of the use of discourse-based interview (DBI) methodology in the development process of the program. The program includes a 4-course sequence--three 2-credit hour composition courses and one 3-credit hour…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Educational Improvement, Interviews, Professional Development
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Frank Bird – Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 2024
More than fifty years ago, an idea took hold in Georgia. Eventually called the Foxfire Approach, its main idea is centered around a view of a democratic classroom. Following a general sense of John Dewey's pragmatism, Eliot Wigginton invested his energy and skills into his English classroom to propel students to choose worthwhile activities. This…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Student Centered Learning, Teachers, Story Telling
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Bartholomae, David – Journal of Basic Writing, 2020
I retired from teaching in August, 2018. In the fall semester of that academic year, I taught a section of Basic Writing (now called "Workshop in Composition"), one of the courses I taught in the fall of 1975, my first year at the University of Pittsburgh. This essay is a documentary account of that course, including writing assignments…
Descriptors: Basic Writing, Writing Assignments, College English, English Curriculum
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Georgia Bock – Region 2 Comprehensive Center, 2022
The Region 2 Comprehensive Center (R2CC) supported the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) in developing new curriculum frameworks for mathematics, science, and English language arts (ELA). This partnership was formed because of 2019 legislation that mandated new statewide academic standards as well as new curriculum frameworks to inform…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Equal Education, Mathematics Curriculum
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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
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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
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Shann, Steve – English in Australia, 2019
What role might storytelling play both as a component of the English curriculum and as a way of re-envisioning what we do as English teachers? The following story asks questions about storytelling in the English classroom, its fit with current theory and practice, and its role in a contemporary world. Live Bodies is a fiction. None of the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Fiction, English Curriculum, English Teachers
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Rose, Ebony – Curriculum Inquiry, 2019
In her scholarship of the past five decades, Sylvia Wynter has woven a critique of education in Caribbean, European, African, and American societies. In addition, her work demonstrates how education globally structures a particular cultural, historical, and onto-epistemic anti-Black/anti-Indigenous worldview. In Wynter's most neglected piece of…
Descriptors: Humanism, Racial Bias, Foreign Policy, Western Civilization
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