From 'Our Island Story' to 'Citizens of Nowhere': Culture, Identity and English Literature

Autor/in	Talbot, Daniel
Titel	From 'Our Island Story' to 'Citizens of Nowhere': Culture, Identity and English Literature
Quelle	In: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 29 (2022) 3, S.285-296 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Talbot, Daniel)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-684X
DOI	10.1080/1358684X.2022.2053281
Schlagwörter	Self Concept; English Literature; Cultural Awareness; Secondary School Students; Creativity; National Curriculum; Reports; Educational History; Nationalism; Immigrants; Refugees; English Teachers; English Instruction; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Englische literatur; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Sekundarschüler; Kreativität; Abschlussbericht; Berichten; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Nationalismus; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Flüchtling; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; English langauage lessons; Ausland
Abstract	There is a growing consensus that the study of literature in English secondary schools is suffering a crisis: a fixation with knowledge and facts, a loss of creativity, and a denigration of students' own experience, to name a few. This article argues that this is, in part, a result of the conception of culture embedded in the current National Curriculum; a conception in which the study of literature exists primarily to valorise and maintain a clearly definable national culture. In response to this, I suggest that recent thinking in the tradition of cultural cosmopolitanism can expose the inadequacies of this model and offer a set of conceptual resources for thinking about the role of identity and culture in relation to literary study in the secondary school. I also suggest that, as far back as the 1921 Newbolt report, fragments of this more capacious understanding of culture run through much of the most important thinking about the subject. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01