The new English teacher: redesigning pedagogies

We want to take you with us for the next hour on a journey – across times, across spaces, across the professional histories of English teaching and across geographical terrains within Australia, from South Australia to Victoria. But most importantly we want to move across generations – across generations of older teachers and younger teachers who are the focus of our current research and our keynote address: those early and first year teachers who are just beginning their careers at the start of the 21st century and those English and literacy teachers who have been committed professionals for around 30 years. In a sense the two groups of teachers we are referring to today can be roughly thought of as the graduating class of 1970 and the graduating class of 2000.