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English revisited: sucker punch, moffatt, avatars and forensic evidence
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posted on 2012-11-01, 00:00 authored by J Russell, Catherine BeavisCatherine BeavisContemporary curriculum guidelines, such as those provided in the incoming Australian curriculum, call for English to attend to multimodal forms of text and literacy as well as more traditional forms. Students are expected to become capable and critical readers, users and creators of texts and forms of literacy that span everything from newspapers to classic texts to visual art to computer games. How to do so, and what this means for English, is often less clear. In this paper, we describe an English curriculum that was at once literary and multimodal, analytic and creative, and embraced a range of opportunities for students to study and create literary and aesthetic texts in many forms. We discuss the opportunities this presented to connect with the excitement of the contemporary world, and the ways in which longstanding principles and philosophies of good teaching and learning, and the central concerns of English curriculum across time, might be understood and reconstituted in the digital age.
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English in AustraliaVolume
47Issue
2Pagination
27 - 35Publisher
Australian Association for the Teaching of EnglishLocation
Kensington Gardens, S. Aust.eISSN
0155-2147Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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