As if they could be otherwise...finding spaces for creativity in the enacted curriculum O'Mara, Joanne 2011, As if they could be otherwise...finding spaces for creativity in the enacted curriculum. In Doecke, Brenton, Parr, Graham and Sawyer, Wayne (ed), Creating an Australian curriculum for English : national agendas, local contexts, Phoenix Education, Putney, N. S. W., pp.155-168. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title As if they could be otherwise...finding spaces for creativity in the enacted curriculum Author(s) O'Mara, Joanne orcid.org/0000-0003-3511-1125 Title of book Creating an Australian curriculum for English : national agendas, local contexts Editor(s) Doecke, Brenton orcid.org/0000-0003-2142-8359 Parr, Graham Sawyer, Wayne Publication date 2011 Chapter number 11 Total chapters 16 Start page 155 End page 168 Total pages 13 Publisher Phoenix Education Place of Publication Putney, N. S. W. Keyword(s) English curriculum Inovating Summary This chapter inquires into four very different Australian middle-school classrooms where teachers are innovating their practices and developing new approaches to aspects of English curriculum. These classrooms from diverse settings (one middle-class urban, one elite private inner urban, one regional disadvantaged, one middle-class regional) have all taken imaginative leaps and reworked their curricula to put the students’ needs at the centre. At one school, Year 8 students design, make and play their own computer games, at another Year 6 students script, design, craft and shoot their own claymation film; at another, Year 9 students use videogames as texts in their literature studies; and at another, a group of Year 6 students work with a theatre company and their teachers to rework Shakespeare into a contemporary, accessible, enjoyable performance. The chapter considers how in each case these different approaches engage and extend the students in meaningful and relevant ways. The chapter includes a mix of teacher and student interview data, principal data and teacher writing. The chapter investigates how each of these projects worked to achieve its aims and discusses how the single national curriculum might be re-envisioned in local contexts. ISBN 9781921586538 1921586532 Language eng Field of Research 130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl LOTE, ESL and TESOL) Socio Economic Objective 930201 Pedagogy HERDC Research category B1 Book chapter Copyright notice ©2011, Phoenix Education Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30043851 Document type: Book Chapter Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 23 Mar 2012, 09:25:32 EST Fri, 23 Mar 2012, 09:27:08 EST Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 09:20:53 EST Mon, 12 May 2014, 11:36:37 EST Thu, 15 May 2014, 12:07:48 EST Tue, 10 Jun 2014, 10:43:37 EST Tue, 10 Jun 2014, 15:05:45 EST Tue, 10 Jun 2014, 15:07:28 EST Tue, 10 Jun 2014, 15:09:47 EST Mon, 14 Jul 2014, 08:54:46 EST Wed, 16 Jul 2014, 12:24:53 EST Wed, 16 Jul 2014, 12:25:56 EST Sat, 19 Jul 2014, 15:49:28 EST Tue, 23 Sep 2014, 12:28:38 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 648 Abstract Views, 14 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 23 Mar 2012, 09:25:11 EST by Kylie Koulkoudinas