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A. D. Hope – English in Australia, 2022
This article was originally published in "English in Australia," number 5, 1967. The text is Professor A. D. Hope's presidential address to the Australian Association for the Teaching of English from April, 1967. It manifests his concern for the state of English teaching in Australia.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Speeches, Teacher Associations
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Jennifer Alford; Beryl Exley; Elizabeth Baker – English in Education, 2024
This paper considers the research evidence-base informing teaching practice and policy in subject English in schools. We explore the "Australian Journal of English Education," the flagship research publication from the Australian Association of Teachers of English, at a time when an evidence-base is in high demand. Our aim is to…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Periodicals
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Nashid Nigar; Alex Kostogriz – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
This article examines the transformation of Australian EAL/D (English as an additional language/dialect) classrooms, transitioning from a monolingual focus on Standard Australian English (SAE) to embracing plurilingual and intercultural approaches in English language and literacy teaching and learning. Employing hermeneutic phenomenological and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multicultural Education, Literacy, Language Arts
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Amy Thomson – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2024
In light of the results of the 2023 referendum, truth-telling should inform how educators embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives across the curriculum. It is imperative that students' experiences of Indigenous content are understood, as this will inform the legitimisation of Indigenous futurity in classrooms and how teachers…
Descriptors: Ethics, Indigenous Populations, Pacific Islanders, Indigenous Knowledge
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Worrell, Tamika – English in Australia, 2022
The subject of English offers a unique context to embed Indigenous perspectives for the benefit of all students through its availability and variety of text choices. Currently, the New South Wales (NSW) English Syllabus requires teachers to include texts which provide 'insights into Aboriginal experiences in Australia' (NESA, 2012). With no…
Descriptors: Reading Material Selection, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge
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Cara Shipp; Phil Page – English in Australia, 2022
This workshop was presented as an introduction to the forthcoming AATE text: "Listening from the Heart: Rewriting the Teaching of English with First Nations Voices." Its purpose was to engage non-Indigenous teachers who have doubts about their capacities to teach First Nations topics and literature, to ascertain what their main concerns…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Resources, Teacher Workshops
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Yandell, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
The 'knowledge turn' in curriculum studies has proved highly influential in the past two decades. But what is meant by knowledge remains both unclear and subject to contestation, particularly in relation to English as a school subject. Two recent books address the knowledge question in very different ways.
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Curriculum, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Students
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Lucinda McKnight; Tyson Yunkaporta – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
This article provides an account of a yarn between a First Nations Australian researcher and an Anglo-Celtic Australian researcher about the future of writing curriculum in subject English education, if school in its current settler-colonial form were to be abolished and completely re-imagined. Yarning is an Indigenous research method evolving…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Researchers, Writing Instruction, Dialogs (Language)
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Genevieve D’Netto; Jen Scott Curwood – English in Australia, 2022
A significant body of research highlights the rich linguistic and cultural experiences offered by spoken word poetry when integrated into English pedagogy, particularly through its fusion of written and performative modes and its opportunities for cultivating empathy and creativity. However, few studies have examined secondary English teachers'…
Descriptors: Poetry, Oral Language, High Stakes Tests, English Instruction
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McKnight, Lucinda – English in Education, 2021
Conflicting ways to understand the nature of paragraphs, including their purpose and structure, have been central to composition theory for many decades. Yet English teachers across countries are experiencing ongoing pressures to mandate a specific paragraph template. This article traces the contentious, binary history of paragraph theory and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Sentences, English Teachers
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Owen, Ceridwen; Enticott, Emma; Harlowe, Joe; Kolber, Steven; Rees, Ellen; Wood, Anne – English in Australia, 2021
In an attempt to control the spread of COVID-19 in Australia in 2020 state and territory governments mandated the closing of schools for all but vulnerable children and the children of frontline workers in various parts of Australia for various lengths of time. In what follows, five English teachers from across Australia reflect on the everyday…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Shann, Steve; Macken-Horarik, Mary; Edwards, CeCe – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
What do we see when we observe an excellent English lesson? What's going on in the room? Perhaps what stands out is a collaborative making of meanings inspired by stimulating texts. Perhaps what's most important is an ever-deepening knowledge about, and facility with, the many ways that language works. Maybe what we're seeing is a carefully…
Descriptors: Poetry, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Usage
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Truman, Sarah E.; McLean Davies, Larissa; Buzacott, Lucy – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
This paper thinks with the concept of intertextuality to consider the multiple intersecting power structures inside and outside of literary education in secondary schools that continue to dominate text selection policies and teaching practices. We draw on our research with in-service teachers to reconsider how intertextual networks circulate on…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Secondary School Students, Literature, Teacher Attitudes
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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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Mannix, Timothy – English in Australia, 2018
The study of English, like the teaching of English, is bound with thematic concerns of love. Notions of love, and the range of experiences that come with them, coalesce in learning spaces when both teachers and students analyse texts, unpack social issues, and construct arguments in daily teaching and learning practice. Within the broader social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, English Teachers, English Instruction
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