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Manuel, Jacqueline; Brock, Sophia; Brock, Amelia – English in Australia, 2017
This special issue of "English in Australia" invited the wife (Jacqueline Manuel) and daughters (Sophia and Amelia Brock) of Paul Brock, who served fifty years as an educator, to provide this reflective piece on his influence as a leader in education, a writer, a teacher, a scholar, a mentor, and an advocate for medical research and…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Recognition (Achievement), Profiles, Relevance (Education)
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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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Davies, Larissa McLean – English in Australia, 2008
In the past two years, considerable media and government attention has been directed towards the teaching of Australian literature in secondary schools. This article explores the main themes of this discourse, and considers recent discussions about Australian literature in the National English Curriculum in the context of this debate. By way of…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, National Curriculum, English Literature, Discourse Analysis