Structuring the New English in Australia: James Moffett and English Teaching in New South Wales

Autor/in	Sawyer, Wayne
Titel	Structuring the New English in Australia: James Moffett and English Teaching in New South Wales
Quelle	In: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 17 (2010) 3, S.285-296 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-684X
DOI	10.1080/1358684X.2010.505448
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; English Instruction; Teaching Methods; Instructional Innovation; National Curriculum; Curriculum Design; Language Acquisition; Rhetoric; Change Agents; Curriculum Development; Secondary School Curriculum; Educational Practices; Educational Change; Educational Strategies; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Educational Innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Lehrplangestaltung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Rhetorik; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsreform; Lehrstrategie; Australien
Abstract	James Moffett's influence in Australia is shown here manifested in a particular Syllabus for Years 7-10 from the 1970s. Moffett is discussed in terms of the totalising nature of the theory presented in "Teaching the Universe of Discourse" and it is argued that not only the details of Moffett's theory, but also its totalising nature were both reflected in that Syllabus. This approach to curriculum is briefly contrasted with the current draft National Curriculum for English (K-10) in Australia, which presents a model of the subject effectively disintegrated into separate strands of language, literature and literacy. Finally, the author's own experience with Moffett's "Active Voice" in schools is discussed as an example of operationalising theories of language development and rhetoric within a longitudinal curriculum. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01