Promises, Promises: The National English Curriculum in Context

This thesis locates the Australian National English Curriculum in its political, pedagogical, intellectual and historical contexts. It argues that the tripartite structure of the Curriculum into language, literature and literacy is the result of a flawed pedagogy pointing to wider ideological confl...

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Main Author: Macintyre, Margaret
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88134
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description This thesis locates the Australian National English Curriculum in its political, pedagogical, intellectual and historical contexts. It argues that the tripartite structure of the Curriculum into language, literature and literacy is the result of a flawed pedagogy pointing to wider ideological conflicts over curricula and that this structure undermines a coherent and pedagogically sound approach to the teaching of English in schools.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-881342022-03-17T06:07:05Z Promises, Promises: The National English Curriculum in Context Macintyre, Margaret This thesis locates the Australian National English Curriculum in its political, pedagogical, intellectual and historical contexts. It argues that the tripartite structure of the Curriculum into language, literature and literacy is the result of a flawed pedagogy pointing to wider ideological conflicts over curricula and that this structure undermines a coherent and pedagogically sound approach to the teaching of English in schools. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88134 Curtin University fulltext
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title Promises, Promises: The National English Curriculum in Context
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title_sort promises, promises: the national english curriculum in context
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/88134