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Direct linkGoodacre, Lewis – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2022
This essay explores an English lesson I taught to a Year 9 class in which students drew upon and narrativised personal experiences. I describe and examine the literary sociability of the lesson, by which I mean the social and cultural exchanges that give shape to students' reading and writing. In doing so, I demonstrate the need for policymakers…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, English Instruction, Grade 9
Nevin, Christine – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This essay draws from the experience of observing writing practices in English lessons from 2010-2019, to suggest that the influence of education policy during this phase prioritises preparation for examination questions above the imperatives of learner creativity or volition. Through discussion of ways in which the 'high stakes' examination…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Educational Policy, English Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship
Gilbert, Francis – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This article examines the deeper purposes behind the teaching of creative writing. To extend an analogy created by William Blake in his poem 'The Tyger', its furnaces are examined and its 'deadly terrors' clasped. It re-interprets the different views of teaching English, as drawn up in the United Kingdom's Cox Report. It argues that these views…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods
McConnel, Jen – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
This article explores the ways in which the language of the hero's journey can serve as a heuristic for teachers at all stages of their professional experience. Teachers in Canada and the United States were interviewed via Skype about their experiences around writing and literacy. Four teachers are profiled here, two from Canada and two from the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Profiles, Videoconferencing, Foreign Countries
Smith, Lorna – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2019
It is now five years since the introduction of the current National Curriculum for English in England; it is just over 50 years since the Dartmouth Conference drew together American and English educationalists. This paper reports on a hermeneutic study that presents voices from the field of English teaching in England. It asks questions of today's…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Creative Teaching, National Curriculum, Hermeneutics
Doecke, Brenton; Breen, Lisa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2013
Genre theory has been around for a long time now. The exchange between Michael Rosen and Frances Christie recently featured in "Changing English" is the latest in a series of exchanges between advocates of genre and their critics over the past three decades or so. Our aim in this response-essay is not to weigh up the merits of the cases…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Secondary School Teachers
