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Dominic, Nah – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
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…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Ethics, Grade 10, Secondary School Students
Bender, Geoff – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
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…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English Literature, English Instruction, Power Structure
Bacalja, Alex – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This paper explores the continued cultural consecration of narrow forms of knowledge and literate practice in senior Australian English curricula. Despite the prevalence of Personal Growth approaches to English throughout Australia in the latter decades of the Twentieth century, the analysis of curricula reveals a contradiction between stated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Curriculum, Literacy Education, Curriculum Development
Romylos, Salomé – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This article aims to give insight into the professional identities of seven teachers who teach English literature to Grade 10-12 learners, in the North-West district of South Africa. The focus is on how these teachers' experiences are shaped by larger determinants (social, historical, professional, etc.), and how their experiences might resonate…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, English Literature, High School Teachers, Context Effect
Watkins, Victoria – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This article is an investigation into the Reading Partners scheme at a large inner London comprehensive school in England; this research comes from a small scale study I carried out as part of my Masters of Teaching at the Institute of Education, University College London. Reading Partners is a project whereby younger and older students within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading, Cooperative Learning, High Schools
Wheatley, Lance – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
How might English classrooms be spaces where Muslim students are empowered to recognise and resist Islamophobia? This qualitative study draws on theories of critical consciousness and Islamophobia to show how Bassim, a Muslim student, makes sense of Islamophobic encounters through the poetic and analytic writing he creates in his public high…
Descriptors: Muslims, Islam, Social Bias, Religious Cultural Groups
Takahashi, Reiko – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
Over the decades, efforts have been made to incorporate diverse perspectives on World Englishes into English Language Teaching (ELT) practice and teaching materials. To date, the majority of ELT learners and teachers have not yet been exposed to materials which use and explore non-standard forms of English. This paper examines the attitudes of…
Descriptors: Japanese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wiltse, Lynne; Johnston, Ingrid; Yang, Kylie – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2014
In this paper we highlight findings from a teacher inquiry group study designed to explore possibilities for teaching contemporary Canadian literature to promote issues of social justice in secondary classrooms. Drawing on Boler and Zembylas's notion of a "pedagogy of discomfort," our paper will focus on the experiences of two teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Literature, Social Justice
Locke, Terry – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2013
This case-study explores the effects of a school-wide writing competition and the implementation of a poetry-writing unit across all junior English classes in a rural New Zealand school. Teacher interview data were thematically analysed using a social constructionist lens. Results highlight the varied strategies adopted by teachers, while…
Descriptors: High School Students, Poetry, Case Studies, Learning Activities
Matoush, Marylou M.; Fu, Danling – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
Tests of English language mark significantly high thresholds for all college-bound students in the People's Republic of China. Many Chinese students hope to seek their fortunes at universities in the United States, or other English speaking countries. These students spend long hours, year after year, in test-preparation centres in order to develop…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Test Preparation
Warner, Lionel – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
In attempting to answer the question "How is disability represented in plays?" two approaches are considered, one semiotic and literary and the other concerned with notions of stereotyping drawn from disability studies. The five plays on which the discussion is based are school examination set texts, raising questions about classroom…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Drama, Literary Devices, Semiotics
Vetter, Amy – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
Becoming a successful writer is an important skill for the young because it predicts academic success, supports and extends learning, provides opportunities to participate in civic and community life and fulfils expectations of the workforce to create clear and concise documents. Many secondary students in the US, however, struggle to gain basic…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Writing Instruction, High School Students, Grade 11