NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

Learn more about the history of ERIC here. PDF icon

Showing all 4 results
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Green, Bill – English in Australia, 2008
The move currently underway to construct a formalised national curriculum presents us, as educators and as citizens, with both opportunities and challenges. This is perhaps especially the case with English teaching, clearly the most contentious of the four subject areas in the front line of such initiatives and agendas. Why this is so needs to be…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, English Curriculum, Rhetoric, Democracy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Cormack, Phillip; Grant, Pat; Kerin, Rosie; Green, Bill – English in Australia, 2003
Explores the largely unexamined years of English teaching between the 1910s and 1960s in Australia in order to supplement available forms of English curriculum history. Contends that an examination of teacher training curriculum and materials for this period would provide a useful way of further investigating the kind of English "subject" being…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational History, Educational Research, English Curriculum
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Green, Bill – English in Australia, 2002
Addresses whether English teaching has a literacy project of its own. Discusses a holistic, integrated view of literacy as comprising three interlocking dimensions: operational, cultural, and critical. Suggests English teaching should engage with philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. Proposes that educators need to develop a better…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Context, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Green, Bill; Reid, Jo-Anne – English in Australia, 1986
Describes the experience and implications of the Kewdale Project for English teacher education, particularly inservice, and for learning theory in practice. (HOD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum