Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ594737
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0046-208X
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Killing Snakes.
Matthews, Brian
English in Australia, n124 p16-20 Apr 1999
Accuses successive governments of Australia of deriding intellect and the intellectual. Claims the attitude that teaching is everyone's realm and does not require professional expertise rewards itself in forms of ignorance, prejudice and narrowness and has created a critically deprived and impoverished education culture. (NH)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Political Attitudes, Secondary Education, Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Qualifications, Teaching (Occupation)
Australian Association for the Teaching of English, P.O. Box 3203, Norwood, South Australia 5067, Australia; e-mail: aatemail@nexus.edu.au
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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