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Publication Date: 2018
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English and the Knowledge Question
Doecke, Brenton; Mead, Philip
Pedagogy, Culture and Society, v26 n2 p249-264 2018
This essay poses the question of the role that literary knowledge plays in subject English. It thus engages with current debates, largely prompted by Michael Young's call to 'bring knowledge back in', about the need to restore academic knowledge as the basis of the school curriculum. We take issue with Young's understanding of knowledge, arguing that it privileges propositional knowledge at the expense of the interpretive activities typically associated with literary studies, and thus fails to provide a valid framework for supporting students as they read and engage with literary texts. We focus on two moments in the history of subject English, namely the Newbolt Report (1921) and John Dixon's "Growth Through English" (1967), showing how they embody understandings of the nature of 'knowledge' and 'experience' as they are mediated by language that provide a significant counterpoint to Young's arguments.
Descriptors: English, English Curriculum, English Literature, Educational History, Literary Styles, Role Perception, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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