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Wintle, Philippa – English in Australia, 2011
The extent to which our students, and indeed we, are manipulated by popular culture and a normative perception of an ideal way to be is an issue of increasing import. The changes we make to our teaching to engage students in this issue must be conducive to meaningful learning and subsequent academic achievement. The changes we make are based on…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Ownership, Risk, Writing Instruction
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Locke, Terry; Cleary, Alison – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
As an approach to literary study, critical literacy is not a widespread practice in New Zealand secondary schools. This article draws on a major project on teaching literature in the multicultural classroom that take place over two years in 2008-2009. In it we report on a case study where a Year 13 English teacher designed and tested a novel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Case Studies, English Curriculum