ERIC Number: EJ1080557
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 8
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Is the Frame Broken? Seeking New Metaphors for Textual Study in English
McKnight, Lucinda
English in Australia, v50 n2 p7-14 2015
This article draws from a doctoral study of how female teachers design English curriculum around girls' popular culture in a contemporary coeducational secondary setting and focuses on how English teachers contemplate the study of texts in the space of school-based curriculum planning. The article presents an argument for reflexivity around how we create both texts and identity through curriculum design. It advocates the pursuit of new metaphors for contemplating the study of text that might challenge models of education as delivery in a neoliberal imaginary, where curriculum design is depicted as the anonymous and rational articulation of aims and pedagogy to achieve outcomes.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Popular Culture, Curriculum Design, Figurative Language, Neoliberalism, Females, English Teachers, English Curriculum, Coeducation, Self Concept, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Students, Educational Research, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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