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'This essay is structured around quotations taken from early issues of English in Australia, the journal of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE), when that journal played a significant role in the formation of a professional discourse for English teachers at a time of rapid expansion of secondary education during the post-war years. We enter into a dialogue with contributors to these early issues in order to test the currency of their values and beliefs today. What is their attitude towards the teaching of literature in Australia? What are their views specifically with regard to the place of Australian writing in the secondary English curriculum? Does English still have anything in common with what contributors to these early issues understood the subject to be? We are posing these questions, not out of some musty interest in the ghosts of debates past, but in an effort to create a perspective on the present, and to think outside the mental cage of standards-based reforms and construction of subject English that is currently being foisted on the profession by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).' (Authors' introduction, p. 266)
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Teaching Small ‘l’ Literature : Lessons from English in Australia
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- English in Australia 1965 periodical (74 issues)
- Good Readers and Good Citizens : Literature, Media and the Nation 1999 single work criticism
- Poetry and Living: An Evaluation of the American Poetic Tradition 1982 single work prose
- Broken/Open 2005 selected work poetry
- Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009 anthology correspondence diary drama essay extract poetry prose short story
- Urban Myths : 210 Poems : New and Selected 2006 selected work poetry
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