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Bentley, Nick – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This essay examines learners' understanding of how they use role. It draws upon a semi-structured interview with five Year 7 students, which took place after their first lesson exploring "Darkwood Manor," a gothic sequence of drama. Considering the elements which shape how they adopt roles in the classroom, I interrogate the students'…
Descriptors: Self Motivation, Cooperation, Peer Relationship, Role Playing
Sosa, Teresa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
Focusing on moments in the English classroom imbued with affective forces that produce racial differentiation is central to the support of classrooms addressing race and racism. This work focuses on an event in an English classroom where race was constructed in ways that disrupted not only silence but habitual ways of social differentiation.…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Bias, Racial Attitudes, Social Differences
Torres-Ryan, Louise – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
How does a beginning teacher go about constructing a teacherly identity in a pandemic? How does one reconcile what might be with what is, as dictated by the rhetoric of a neoliberal government, which prizes the individual mind over the collective one, the product over the process, and results over relationships? This essay explores these questions…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, English Instruction, English Teachers
Stockdale, Fiona – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This essay explores the place of debating, talk and group work in the Secondary English classroom. It discusses the ways in which pupils in one student teacher's year 7 class thrive in the dialogic classroom against the backdrop of curricular and attitudinal change. It considers the importance of talk and debate amongst the 'communities of…
Descriptors: Debate, English Instruction, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Yandell, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
What happens when, in a nation under lockdown, teaching moves online? How is English as a school subject being differently configured? What are the gains and losses? This essay examines, through the prism of a single online lesson, the approach to English, to curriculum and pedagogy, that has been adopted by the Oak National Academy website, a…
Descriptors: School Closing, English Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
Pre-Service Teachers Teaching Critical Literacy through Microteaching: Possibilities and Constraints
Ng, Chiew Hong – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2017
In this paper I explore four groups of pre-service teachers' teaching of critical literacy in microteaching to examine how they translated critical literacy into teaching practice for secondary/upper middle grade students (the role played by peers undergoing microteaching). Firstly I discuss some key concepts and outline the pedagogical framework…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Critical Literacy, Microteaching, Foreign Countries
Roberts, Jenny – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2016
This essay challenges assumptions that those labelled as "high achievers" are in some way "held back" by those perceived as having lower initial capability. By exploring collaborative pedagogical approaches and focussing on my experiences with two students, with widely differing initial capabilities, and exploring how they have…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Ability, Ability Grouping, Grade 7
Ware, Tessa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2015
Starting with the writer's own experience as a reader, this article discusses poetry by Eric Roach, Derek Walcott, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Agard, Edward Baugh, Michael Smith and Velma Pollard. It explores the sense of place felt by writer and reader, going on to analyse the poets' use of Nation Language, poetic metre and intertextuality in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Poets, Oral Tradition
Wissman, Kelly; Costello, Sean; Hamilton, Diane – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
This article explores the experiences and literacy practices of an adolescent boy enrolled in an academic support class, in which students received an open-ended invitation to respond to S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders" with the software programme Comic Life. In constructing this "telling case", we highlight how traditional…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Males, Literacy Education, Novels
Cruice, Mari – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
This article is a piece of "fiction written under oath." It reports two key findings of a doctoral research project, which investigated English teachers' reactions to the abolition of Year 9 SATs in England and in Wales. The research showed that in both countries, English teachers' pedagogical repertoires have widened as a result of the…
Descriptors: Research Projects, English Teachers, Teacher Response, Educational Practices
Pantaleo, Sylvia; Bomphray, Alexandra – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2011
During two multifaceted, classroom-based research projects, Grade 7 students had opportunities to develop their understanding of metafictive devices and art and design elements by reading a selection of picturebooks and graphic novels. The students also had the opportunity to apply their knowledge and create their own multimodal print texts. This…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Picture Books, Cartoons, Novels