EDED14352  Literature in the Classroom

Not offered in 2001

Recent documents, the National Statement on English for Australian Schools (1993), and in Queensland schools, a new and innovative Language Education Framework has been successfully introduced and supported by a substantial inservice program. Both these documents draw on a wide range of contemporary social, literary, and linguistic theories, making it essential that teachers are familiar with these theories. While the courses English Pedagogy I and II go some way to familiarising students with these theories, this course focuses on knowledge of contemporary social theory as a filter for the choice of literature in the classroom. While outside the focus of this program, it is acknowledged that the whole of culture and society, not just their verbal manifestations, are texts.