| Required Reading: Literature in Australian Schools Since 1945 Contributor(s): Dolin, Tim (Editor), Jones, Jo (Editor), Dowsett, Patricia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1925495574 ISBN-13: 9781925495577 Publisher: Monash University Publishing OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities |
| Dewey: 807.12 |
| LCCN: 2017381728 |
| Series: Literary Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (0.95 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Required Reading examines for the first time what students have read and studied in the disciplines of English and literary studies at Australian schools and universities after 1945. On the basis of this primary evidence, the authors challenge enduring myths of curriculum history, the history of literary studies, critical theory, and cultural studies. They fill out the picture of how students were encouraged to read: when, where, and in which particular pedagogical and wider social and historical contexts. They relate dramatic changes to curriculum frameworks and syllabi, teaching and learning methods, social and cultural values and assumptions, and the academic discipline of literary studies itself. Required Reading shows, finally, how flawed assumptions about the nature and history of English and Literature have, since the 1980s, obstructed the advancement of knowledge within both fields of scholarly endeavour. Contributors include: Tim Dolin, Joanne Jones, Patricia Dowsett, John Yiannakis, Ian Reid, Jacqueline Manuel, Don Carter, Wayne Sawyer, Larissa McLean Davies, Brenton Doecke, Prue Gill, Terry Hayes, Jenny de Reuck, Susan K Martin, Tully Barnett, Kate Douglas, Alice Healy-Ingram, Georgina Arnott, and Claire Jones. (Series: Literary Studies) Subject: Australian Studies, Literary Studies, Education] |