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Rewriting the History of Subject English through the Lens of 'Literary Sociability'
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Doecke, Brenton – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
This essay offers readings of three significant texts within the history of subject English: "The Teaching of English in England" (1921), "The Education of the Poetic Spirit" (1949), and "Growth Through English" (1967). These texts each yield valuable insights into what students and their teachers can learn through…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Educational History, Neoliberalism, Teacher Student Relationship
A New Beginning? John Yandell's "The Social Construction of Meaning: Reading Literature in Urban Classrooms"
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Doecke, Brenton – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2014
John Yandell's "The Social Construction of Meaning: Reading Literature in Urban Classrooms" provides a powerful counterpoint to current policy discourse in education. By focusing on the social interactions that occur in the classrooms of two English teachers, Yandell shows how their pupils are able to explore dimensions of language and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, English Instruction, English Teachers, Literature
Language, Experience and Professional Learning (What Walter Benjamin Can Teach Us)
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Doecke, Brenton; Pereira, Iris Susana Pires – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
This essay raises questions about how language educators might construct and further develop their epistemology of practice in and through the situations in which they work from day to day. The occasion for this paper is our work as guest editors of a special issue of "L-1: Educational Studies in Language and Literature," when we invited…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Practices, Learning Experience, Language Teachers