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Direct linkHowie, Mark – English in Australia, 2021
My thoughts on the question of 'Textuality as the Centre of English' were presented at a Roundtable session at the 2020 International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE) Conference. Through critical discourse analysis of media and curriculum texts, I highlight how the 'being' of the English subjects is always and already textual in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Poetry
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
Paul Sommer – English in Australia, 2022
"Landscapes of Learning," in the conference title, prompts a literal reading of landscape and its place in film analysis. This article considers landscape's mental and emotional dimensions and the discovery of landscape as a malleable analytical concept. A critique of film as a visual text is invited. Particular analytical approaches to…
Descriptors: Films, Content Analysis, English Curriculum, Educational Theories
Julie Arnold; Anne Camiller; Matthew Pickersgill; Kathryn McKenna; Jill Willis – English in Australia, 2022
Multimodal discourse analysis (MMDA) has been instrumental in the evolution of English curriculum and pedagogy. However, it is unusual for educators to direct the tools of multimodal inquiry to their own text productions. In the context of prioritising accessibility within the new Queensland Certificate of Education in Queensland, which has…
Descriptors: Worksheets, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Department Heads
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
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
Bacalja, Alexander; Bliss, Lauren – English in Australia, 2019
This paper reports findings from a study investigating trends in character, historical setting, authorship and themes across Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) text selection lists between 2010 and 2019. We address the fictionalisation and imagining of Australian history through narratives about Indigeneity and settler-colonisation. While we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Reading Material Selection
Cheung, Kelly; O'Sullivan, Kerry-Ann – English in Australia, 2021
This paper reports on the text selections of two English teachers from different schools in New South Wales, Australia who participated in a larger research study that explored the decision-making of teachers planning for and teaching Stage 5 (Years 9 and 10) English. The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon these teachers' reasons for…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, English Teachers, Reading Material Selection
Estens, Peta; Curwood, Jen Scott – English in Australia, 2020
Creativity is integral to the inquiry process. Inquiry-based work highlights students' understanding of the ways that literature and language mediate lived experiences and social relationships. Within the secondary English classroom, students and teachers can engage in collaborative and imaginative activities to read texts, ask questions, and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Inquiry, English Literature, English Instruction
Davies, Larissa McLean; Martin, Susan K.; Buzacott, Lucy – English in Australia, 2017
This paper examines the role of literature in the English classroom in Australia and its part in shaping national identity. We contend that it is important to consider the possible roles of national literatures in contemporary school contexts, where students are becoming local and global citizens and argue that reading Australian literature as a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English Curriculum
Mellor, Bronwyn – English in Australia, 2017
In this special issue of "English in Australia" dedicated to Annette Patterson, Bronwyn Mellor reflects on this "gentle dissenter". Annette Patterson published articles, book chapters, and school textbooks in Australia, the USA, and the UK. Her incisive intellect and commitment to education probably meant that she was not ever…
Descriptors: Dissent, Educational Research, English Curriculum, Change Agents
Booth, Emily; Narayan, Bhuva – English in Australia, 2018
This article explores findings from an investigation into the publishing experiences of Australian authors of inclusive Young Adult (YA) fiction. A total of seven authors, each publicly identifying as part of a marginalised community in Australia, were interviewed. This paper concentrates on the findings of semi-structured interviews with two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Adolescent Literature, Fiction
McGraw, Kelli; van Leent, Lisa – English in Australia, 2018
In this paper we report the results of an analysis underpinned by a critical orientation seeking non-heteronormative representations of sexualities in an official English curriculum text list. Content and thematic analyses were conducted to establish the extent to which diverse sexualities are represented in the 'sample text list' for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity
Thomas, Angela; To, Vinh – English in Australia, 2019
'Asia literacy' can be loosely defined as having 'some understanding of Asia and its languages in order to engage with it and communicate with its people' (Erebus Consulting Partners, 2002). The Australian Curriculum has prioritised children's development of Asia literacy, specifically through articulating the cross-curriculum priority defined as…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Asian Studies, National Curriculum, Childrens Literature
