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Morley, Colin – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2018
The exercise book has been a ubiquitous piece of school equipment since the advent of mass literacy. This case study explores three teenage boys' exercise books, my father's, mine and a Year 9 in my current school. One each from 1955, 1986 and 2016. It explores how the boys' writing within them was shaped and constructed, for what audience and for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Educational History, Males
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Sabeti, Shari – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2014
This article examines two comic book adaptations of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" produced for teenage readers and used in school classrooms. It seeks to understand the ways in which particular kinds of literacy are being implied and constructed through the textual practice of multimodal adaptation. It presents a close reading of sections of…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Classics (Literature), Adolescents