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Brady, Monica – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
Michael Young's notion of powerful knowledge is attractive to many: to teachers wishing the best for disadvantaged students, to neoliberal governments that continually stress the need for teachers and students to improve their performance. This essay takes issue with this understanding of education. Firstly, it shows how classrooms are mediated by…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Social Problems, Foreign Countries, Social Influences
Brady, Monica – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2016
This is a different essay from the one I set out to write. When I began, I had in mind a picture of my development as a teacher that was linear. I saw myself as a committed and enthusiastic teacher whose understanding about the nature of learning had developed over time. I had a theory that as a young teacher I was focused on content, on the idea…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Political Issues, Personal Narratives, Curriculum Design
Brady, Monica – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
I have spent much of the last two years working in a school in Ramallah, Palestine, supporting new teachers of English. I worked in the classroom, in partnership, sharing the planning and teaching of lessons. This essay is about exploring what happens to texts in a specific classroom context, about how a particularly English text, "Romeo and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Literature, Drama, Classroom Communication
Brady, Monica – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2014
How do students draw on texts read in class to explore and make sense of the world? How does role-play open up the possibilities of utilising these resources, remaking them for their own purposes? How does play, as Vygotsky suggests, enable students to achieve more? And how does being in role change the character of social relations in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 11, Secondary School Students, Role Playing
Brady, Monica – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2013
Over the past 15 years, there has been a range of standards-driven educational interventions in England: focused particularly on students' writing, they have been targeted at particular students, short-term and based on the assumption that identifiable, quantifiable inputs would produce pre-identified, measurable outputs. This article explores one…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, English Instruction, Standards, Intervention