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Direct linkHippisley, Sulaxana – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This essay explores the way that the social interactions of the classroom play a role in shaping sign production. It examines the talk of one second year Advanced Level English literature class in North London during their study of John Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi" through the lens of Volosinov's theories of language. It seeks to…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Classroom Communication, Advanced Courses, English Literature
Mohamud, Libin – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This essay questions the place that conversations about 'race' hold in the English classroom. I hope to reveal the problems that may come with easily dismissing tense and racially charged dialogues about language and identity. I also explore the way classroom talk opens up an opportunity for students to create and contest different meanings and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Race, Classroom Communication
Iffath, Humayra – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This essay explores some of the problems that emerge from the imposition of a very narrow conception of the English literary heritage on pupils across England. It considers the role of government and school policy -- and of teachers and pupils -- in mediating set texts, and the ways in which problematic aspects of these texts are questioned and…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, English Literature, English Instruction, Government Role
Obano, Nisha – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
This essay emerges from my position as a new trainee teacher, entering my first school, a school as unique and also as typical as any. What struck me was the complexity of the school's culture (and counter-cultures). Language was revealed as a site of resistance, a clash between staff and pupils at the point of instruction; a reluctance to read or…
Descriptors: Males, School Culture, Teacher Student Relationship, Language Usage
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
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
