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(Dis)locating Aesthetics: Feeling, Retrieving, and Reconstructing The Handmaid’s Tale in a Multicultural A-Level English Classroom Changing English Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Sulaxana Hippisley
This article interrogates the role of retrieval practices in an urban, multicultural London classroom. With the advent of cognitive science-based approaches in recent years, retrieval has become a ...
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Formative Writing Assessment: An EFL Teacher’s Beliefs and Practices Changing English Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Xiaohan Liu
Although the literature widely acknowledges the benefits of formative writing assessment in daily teaching, there is limited understanding of how frontline teachers implement it and the reasons beh...
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Teaching is a Drag! Performing Gender as a Queer Secondary English Teacher Changing English Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Lewis Goodacre
In light of recent protests at Drag Queen Story Hour events, this essay offers a critical examination of the role of gender performance in secondary schools and English lessons through a personal e...
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Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Tertiary Contexts: Navigating Education and Assessment Challenges Changing English Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Shahanas Punnilath Shanavas, Seema Singh, K. J. Vargheese
Since its inception in the early 1960s, English for specific purposes (ESP) has been characterised as a materials-driven and a teacher-led movement. Distinctively separated from general English tea...
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Awareness of Artificial Intelligence as an Essential Digital Literacy: ChatGPT and Gen-AI in the Classroom Changing English Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Stuart Marshall Bender
This discussion article examines the potential integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI), including advanced Large-Language Models like the popular platform ChatGPT into subject En...
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Editorial Changing English Pub Date : 2024-02-16 John Yandell
Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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A Close Writing Playbook: Coupling Creative Writing and Close Reading Practices Changing English Pub Date : 2024-02-16
Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2024)
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Not just reading the romance online: adolescent girls’ reading Korean Manhwa Changing English Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Chin Ee Loh, Nur Fitri Shazwini Binte Rosli, Maya Ziqing Krishnan
Portable mobile technologies and high-speed access to the internet has led to the development of new online-first reading materials such as Korean Manhwa or webtoons, designed for quick consumption...
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‘Unspeaking the empire’: disentangling the colonial legacy of English education in Australia Changing English Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Tanya Davies, Jack Davis
In post-invasion Australia, English has been a key instrument of colonisation. English education was tasked with producing subjects both loyal to the Australian nation and the British Empire with l...
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Reflections on Our Journeys to Foregrounding Students’ Experiences Through Literature in a Pre-Service Teacher Education Programme Changing English Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Bridget Campbell, Bonakele Mhlongo, Bheki Mthembu, Eugene Marais
In this essay, four teacher educators explore their journeys towards foregrounding students’ lived experiences when teaching literature. Data about our teaching of literature in different contexts ...
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Rethinking English in Education: The Paradoxes of Labelling the “Other” Changing English Pub Date : 2023-11-23 April Edwards, Hyejeong Ahn
Research into how to support student teachers to work with diverse school students frequently uses a narrow, Anglocentric lens based on binary language speaker labels. This lens limits understandin...
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Experts v. Novices: ‘A Fool Takes in all the Lumber of Every Sort’ Changing English Pub Date : 2023-11-21 John Yandell, Sanaa Noor
Current policy in England, informed by a version of cognitive science, enforces an absolute distinction between experts and novices, or teachers and learners; from this binary, operating in tandem ...
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Editorial Changing English Pub Date : 2023-11-15 John Yandell
Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2023)
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From the Derived to the Deviant: A Translation-Based Creative Writing Pedagogy Changing English Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Xia Fang
Whether creativity can be taught or not has remained an unresolved and recurring topic of debate in creative writing. Writing that is creative and imaginative is distinguished from translation, whi...
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Teaching Fairy Tales Old and New: Revisiting Andersen via Emma Donoghue Changing English Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Hawk Chang
Fairy tales have been an essential ingredient in children’s literature. Canonical fairy tales passed down from generation to generation not only enrich children’s imagination but connote significan...
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Knowledge and English Changing English Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Patrick Creamer
Belas’ book interrogates philosophical and educational questions of knowledge, evaluating their significance for subject English. It critically examines prevalent beliefs about knowledge, challengi...
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What Keeps a Narrative going? Teaching Narrative Interest Changing English Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Robert Jean LeBlanc
This article explores the potential of narrative interest for secondary literature education. Narrative is a purposeful construction which is organised with the intent of having effects on readers....
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Students’ Understanding of Role Changing English Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Nick Bentley
ABSTRACT This essay examines learners’ understanding of how they use role. It draws upon a semi-structured interview with five Year 7 students, which took place after their first lesson exploring Darkwood Manor, a gothic sequence of drama. Considering the elements which shape how they adopt roles in the classroom, I interrogate the students’ reflections, including ideas about their personal motivations
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Black British Literature in the Secondary English Classroom Changing English Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Amy Saleh
ABSTRACT This essay explores the teaching and learning of Black British literature in UK secondary schools with reference to texts that now appear on GCSE English Literature specifications. It seeks to reveal some of the issues that may arise when teaching texts that deal with race and racism while emphasising the role of racial literacy in facilitating dialogue around these. By discussing initial
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Super Smash Sisters: Critical Literacy, Gender, and Video Games in the Elementary Classroom Changing English Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Rachel LaMear, Sam von Gillern
ABSTRACT This study investigates how young elementary children engage with conceptions of gender in connection to video gameplay in the language arts classroom. During a three-week unit on video game literacies in a multiage lab school, children learned about, played, discussed, and wrote about video games. Student writing, game reviews, and literature discussion transcripts illuminated critical thinking
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Review of ‘Creativity in the English Curriculum: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions’ Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Francis Gilbert
Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Beyond Measure: The Potential of Storytelling to Challenge Standardised English Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Bella Illesca
This essay uses storytelling as a mode of inquiry to explore how students with languages other than English and with diasporic experiences and identities negotiate a pathway for themselves in a rel...
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Dialogic Appropriation in Academic English Literacy and Pedagogy: Transnational and Translingual Praxis Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Mahtab Janfada
ABSTRACT This essay presents a decade-long reflective account of resisting (in) and appropriating English that I have experienced as a young, female academic from the Middle East who has been engaged in teaching and researching Academic English pedagogy transnationally. Informed by Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialogue and his notions of insided-ness, outsided-ness and in-between-ness, I highlight the ideological
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Destabilising English through Translingual Practice: A Case Study Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Ribut Wahyudi
ABSTRACT This essay arises out of critical reflections in which I have engaged through my teaching in an Indonesian University. All my students are learning English as a foreign language. They typically struggle with how they are positioned ideologically, especially in relation to the so-called ‘native speaker’. My goal as an English educator is to free them from the native speaker ideology. I promote
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Editorial Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Brenton Doecke, Seyyed-Abdolhamid Mirhosseini, John Yandell
Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2023)
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Balanda Talk: My Ideological Becoming as an English Literacy Teacher of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse First Nations Australian Students Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Tim Delphine
ABSTRACT Teaching English literacy in First Nations Australian communities is bound up with the policy aim of improving the social and economic outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the desire to acknowledge, recognise and respect their unique cultural identities, languages and knowledges. But for English literacy teachers working in these communities, realising these aims is
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Negotiating Religious Discourses in English Language Teaching: Reorienting and Reframing Dominant English Ideologies Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Muhalim Muhalim
ABSTRACT Efforts to decolonise foreign/English language teaching involve recognising the importance of diverse meaning-making resources rooted in speakers’ socio-cultural realities, traditions, and values alongside English practices. This focus highlights the value of multicultural and multilingual environments, particularly in dominant English-speaking contexts, and emphasises how languages and their
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‘Oh, Hello Word!’ Boundary Crossing Between Swedish and English Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Paul Morris
ABSTRACT This essay reports on the findings of a study of Swedish teenagers who have a free-time interest of creative writing in English. The essay includes extracts from interviews in which the participants explain their motivations to start their writing activity and continue with it over a longer period. Having been inspired initially by a desire to imitate and adapt stories they had read, the teenagers’
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Cutting Together-Apart of English as a Second Language in Pakistan: Insights from a Translation Studies Classroom Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Shehr Bano Zaidi
ABSTRACT This article uses Karen Barad’s agential realism to re/world the English language as used in Pakistan. My arguments draw on my students’ term project where they not only ‘resist’ the ex-coloniser’s language by creatively adapting it while translating an Urdu text into English but make gender related and political statements. Using post/colonialism as a Baradian apparatus, I re/configure my
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‘Oh No, The Poem is in Malay’: Examining Student Responses to Linguistic Diversity in Two Multicultural Asian Classrooms Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Nah Dominic
ABSTRACT Hitherto, student responses to ethically oriented pedagogies in Literature classrooms have rarely been studied in non-western, multicultural contexts, and often assume monolingual text selections in English. As an Outer Circle English-using society, Singapore presents a multicultural Asian context worth studying where students connect aesthetic analysis with ethical issues. In this paper,
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Ownership of English: Insights from Australian Tertiary Education Contexts Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Hyejeong Ahn, Shu Ohki, Yvette Slaughter
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perception of English ownership among multilingual students in Australian universities. Using qualitative interviews, it explores ownership through four aspects: expertise, inheritance, usage, and identification. The findings suggest that linguistic ownership is tied to language proficiency and self-identification as an expert. Despite students' confidence in English
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Blurring English language binaries: a decolonial analysis of multilingualism with(in) EAL/D education Changing English Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Danielle H. Heinrichs, Gail Hager, Brittany A. McCormack, Natalie Lazaroo
ABSTRACT This article aims to visibilise the opportunities for decolonising standardised language practices for multilingual students learning English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) in Australian schools. We suggest that a decolonising approach to language education would value the multilingual, non-standard, and diverse language practices of learners. Using the Australian state of Queensland
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Racially Motivated: Navigating Conversations Around Race in Predominantly White Classrooms Changing English Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Adam Wolfsdorf, DaMonique Ballou
ABSTRACT In the fall of 2021, an engaged group of NYU graduate students assembled to discuss Angie Thomas’ YA novel The Hate U Give. The class was composed of one Black student among a group of white students. On the night the group discussed The Hate U Give, the freedom of discourse broke down significantly. The white students became terrified of saying anything that could be perceived as racist,
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Cultivating Confusion in Teaching The Turn of the Screw Changing English Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Andrew Rejan
ABSTRACT This narrative inquiry explores the author’s attempt to teach Henry James’s novella The Turn of the Screw in a high school English class, making the celebration of confusion – in the tradition of John Dewey – the cornerstone of the experience. The students’ interpretive discourse is analysed, prompting reflection on promising approaches, opportunities, and challenges connected with teaching
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Editorial Changing English Pub Date : 2023-05-30 John Yandell
Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2023)
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Naming and Challenging Rape Culture in English Curriculum: A Framework for Teaching Canonical Texts with Contemporary Adaptations Changing English Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Henry “Cody” Miller, Shelby Boehm, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko, Brittany Adams, Gillian Mertens
ABSTRACT Acts of sexual violence and rape, as well as the ensuing treatment of survivors and those who perpetuate the crimes, are pervasive in canonical texts that populate mandated reading lists in secondary English classrooms. Given the outsized role the literary canon places in English curriculum, we believe English teachers must develop practices that grapple with rape culture and sexual violence
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Language, power and schooling Changing English Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Gill Anderson
ABSTRACT Ian Cushing’s ‘Standards, Stigma, Surveillance: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and England’s Schools’ draws on raciolinguistic theory to offer a detailed and compelling critique of language policies and teaching practices in contemporary urban schools in England. It argues that ‘minoritised’ pupils and teachers are consistently positioned in deficit and that schools have always been sites where
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Attending to the Sounds of Stories: The Affordances of Audiobooks in the English Classroom Changing English Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Brady L. Nash
ABSTRACT Audiobooks have been growing in popularity over the last decade. Although researchers have increasingly recognised the value of audiobooks as rich multimodal texts that support literacy engagement in classrooms, there have been few detailed pictures of classroom practice related to audiobooks. In this practitioner narrative, a secondary English teacher details the myriad ways in which he drew
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Editorial Changing English Pub Date : 2023-02-02 John Yandell
Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Disrupted Routines: A Thoughtful Response to Controlling Student Writing Changing English Pub Date : 2023-01-24 W. Keith Duffy
ABSTRACT This article uses a quasi-spiritual lens to examine why some teachers feel compelled to inappropriately control student writing. For almost half a century, professionals in composition studies have engaged in vigorous conversations about the problem of teachers co-opting, correcting, and rewriting (essentially appropriating) student texts as part of their teaching practice. Most agree this
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Code-Switching, Memory and the (Im)possibility of Return in Ghada Karmi’s Return: A Palestinian Memoir Changing English Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Bilal Hamamra, Asala Mayaleh
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of code-switching in recreating the place, Palestine, that contemporary Palestinian memoirist Ghada Karmi was expelled from by providing a close analysis of the code-switched expressions and the plurality of voices and perspectives that this linguistic and cultural phenomenon imply in her work Return: A Palestinian Memoir. While code-switching is a feature of
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English and the Knowledge Question (Revisited) Changing English Pub Date : 2023-01-18 John Yandell
ABSTRACT 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.
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Creating a reading community in the classroom Changing English Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Rosa Price
ABSTRACT This essay examines a half-term of Year 9 work on An Inspector Calls, with a particular focus on group discussion, writing in role and class reading of the text. I argue that extensive talking before writing is an invaluable way to elicit pupil insight; I then argue that this is necessarily a collaborative endeavour. I then go on to contrast this experience of the classroom with the (2014)
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A Reflection on the Transformation of My SELF as an English Teacher: A Critical Journey Towards a New Becoming Changing English Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Parvin Safari
ABSTRACT This essay shows how I came to assume the role of an activist-scholar and educator through engaging in self-observation and self-reflection in the course of my day-to-day professional practice. The story of my professional growth comprises epiphanies that were transformational, enabling me and my students to transcend our traditional roles. This critical adventure occurred in an Iranian language
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The myth of student progress: deconstructing attainment measures of secondary English Changing English Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Lewis Goodacre
ABSTRACT This article draws upon Roland Barthes’ theory of myth to unpack how student progress is conceptualised and measured in the curriculum and assessment of GCSE English in secondary schools in England. Using case studies of three Year 11 students, I critique aspects of the government’s Progress 8 accountability measure, their GCSE English curriculum and their high-stakes testing regime. I show
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The Vanguard of The Avant-Garde: Keywords For Political Agency Changing English Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Michael T. MacDonald
ABSTRACT This article examines the terms avant-garde and vanguard as keywords for teaching English through the concept of political agency. For example, political theorist Lea Ypi has conceptualised an ‘avant-garde political agency’ as an experimental process that is meant to be both rhetorically effective and grounded in historical context; however, this approach also presents an opportunity for teachers
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Najma’s Snow: Making Space for Formative Creative Writing Changing English Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Anna Warbrick
ABSTRACT This essay explores the importance of formative creative writing in schools through a Key Stage 3 Creative Writing lunchtime club. I examine the power of unassessed and unconstrained writing through the work of one Year 8 pupil in the early stages of English language acquisition, who so often chooses to write about snow. Reflecting on her writing, I consider what depth of craft and thinking
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‘For All the Fanatics of Drama Out There - This is Your Book!’ An Analysis of Student Podcast Compositions for Responding to Literary Texts Changing English Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Rhiannon Julia O’Grady, Daniel Cassany, Janine Knight
ABSTRACT This article is an exploration of two podcast composition projects carried out in English literature classes at a private, not for profit secondary school in Catalunya. Despite a growing body of research that indicates the richness of meaning making offered by multimodality, written texts remain central in many formal educational settings. Factors of traditionality, time constraints, and exam
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Linguistic autobiographies and critical friend conversations as reflective tools in pre-service teacher education Changing English Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Loraine Prinsloo-Marcus, Bridget Campbell
ABSTRACT This paper is an extension of our 2021 research into pre-service teachers’ linguistic autobiographies in a culturally diverse South African university. The paper, which is presented as conversations, examines what we learned about ourselves and our students through their reflective writing, our reflective writing, and our ensuing conversations. For the previous research, the participants,
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Editorial Changing English Pub Date : 2022-11-01 John Yandell
Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2022)
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Critical Posthumanism, The Chrysalids, and Educational Change Changing English Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Adrian M. Downey
ABSTRACT This paper comprises a re-reading of the 1955 novel by John Wyndham, The Chrysalids, in conversation with philosopher Rosi Braidotti’s formation of critical posthumanism. The author argues that such re-readings of curricular fixtures within secondary English classrooms constitutes a necessary pragmatic intervention in a school system often reluctant to re-examine its canonical texts. The author
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Editorial Changing English Pub Date : 2022-08-10 John Yandell
Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2022)
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Practise and repeat, or practice and critique? A story of learning, feeling and resistance in teacher education Changing English Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Gill Anderson, Benjamin Elms
ABSTRACT Recent reforms to Initial Teacher Education in England are a continuation of a decades-long political project, aiming to change the whole social complex around teachers’ professional education. But the most recent frameworks present some new inflections to the construction of learning, pedagogical relationships and difference. Positivist versions of knowledge and progress and standards-based
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Code-Switching and Diasporic Identity in Edward Said’s Out of Place: A Memoir and Fawaz Turki’s Exile’s Return: The Making of a Palestinian-American Changing English Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Ahmad Qabaha, Bilal Hamamra
ABSTRACT This article examines the cultural and philosophical significance of code switching in the formulation of diasporic identity in Edward Said's Out of Place (1999) and Fawaz Turki's Exile's Return: The Making of a Palestinian-American (1994). It argues that exilic Palestinian writers' use of code-switching pursues various purposes related to the multiplicity and plurality of voices to which
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Close Writing Practices in the Post-Secondary Classroom Changing English Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Scott Jarvie, Michael Lockett
ABSTRACT This paper explores a suite of close writing practices and exercises that ask students to attend closely to language at the level of morpheme, word, line, sentence, or stanza. Close writing aims to move students beyond a conception of reading as mere transaction and technology, while pushing writing pedagogy beyond the development of expository prose, as is common in post-secondary contexts
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Student ‘Characters’ in Qualitative Research Changing English Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Rosie Hunt
ABSTRACT Qualitative practitioner research undertaken by teachers in schools is a vital means of developing pedagogy and practice, one that is under-valued in today’s educational climate. This essay explores representations of students in qualitative studies, which, I argue, necessarily transform student participants into ‘characters’ within the practitioner-researcher’s written narrative. Through
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Things (Don’t Quite) Fall Apart: Exploring the Diversity Insertion in the Secondary ELA Canon Changing English Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Geoff Bender
ABSTRACT This article presents the results of five open-ended surveys administered to two Advanced Placement classes in a primarily White high school in upstate New York. Surveys sought to explore how students make sense of the course diversity selection, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, which was inserted into a primarily White textual canon. Responses were coded and analysed via a Critical Discourse
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The Genealogy of ‘Cultural Literacy’ Changing English Pub Date : 2022-06-01 John Hodgson, Ann Harris
ABSTRACT The British government's current educational policy for England draws on E.D. Hirsch's writings on 'cultural literacy'. This paper aims to uncover the roots of Hirsch’s influential views through a genealogical critique. Hirsch admired the Scottish Enlightenment educator Hugh Blair as a model architect of a hegemonic culture to unite disparate members of a nation. Following Hirsch, the government
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Reading Rebecca in the Sixth-Form Classroom: Some Literary-Critical and Pedagogical Explorations Changing English Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Brian Hanratty
ABSTRACT While Rebecca is not currently a set text for A-Level English Literature, this paper argues that the novel’s multi-faceted richness would justify its inclusion in any list of recommended texts. Divided into four interconnected parts, the paper offers, firstly, some approaches to the reading and teaching of fiction, generally. The second part presents some framing contexts for illuminating
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Why Not?: Embracing the Historical Design of African American Literature to Bolster Its Representative Use in the Classroom Changing English Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Vincent Price
ABSTRACT Having grown up Black in America, the author reflects on his limited exposure to African American literature in school as well as his even more limited opportunity to see himself reflected in the mirrors of those texts. The article then extends into a framework for expanding the inclusion of African American texts in educators’ classrooms. Approaching the literature from a historical design