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1 Journeys in Australian Literature Classrooms : Investigating the Social Graham Parr , Natalie Bellis , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Teaching Australian Literature : From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings 2011; (p. 153-176)
The primary aim of the authors in writing this chapter 'is to illustrate how some aspects of any national literary conversation play out in the complex social and cultural setting of a school literature classroom.' (From authors introduction, p 154)
1 1 The Making of Literature : A Continuing Conversation Natalie Bellis , Graham Parr , Brenton Doecke , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Changing English , June vol. 16 no. 2 2009; (p. 165-179)
This article borrows the title of an influential Australian study by Ian Reid to raise questions about how students read and respond to texts within classroom settings. In 1984 Reid published The Making of Literature, where he drew on poststructuralist insights to develop a new approach to the teaching of literature (what he called the 'Workshop' approach) in contradistinction to more traditional understandings of the role of literature within the school curriculum (the 'Gallery')...This essay revisits Reid's text, presenting three contrasting points of view across two generational spans, in order to raise questions about its continuing relevance. (p. 165)
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