Once Preferred, Now Peripheral: Poetry and the National Assessment for Year 11 Students in New Zealand Post-Primary Schools

Autor/in	O'Neill, Helen Josephine
Titel	Once Preferred, Now Peripheral: Poetry and the National Assessment for Year 11 Students in New Zealand Post-Primary Schools
Quelle	In: English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 5 (2006) 3, S.93-126 (34 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1175-8708
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Poetry; National Competency Tests; Language Tests; English Curriculum; Secondary School Curriculum; Surveys; Interviews; Secondary School Teachers; English Teachers; Academic Standards; Teacher Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Secondary School Students; College Students; Preservice Teachers; Teacher Educators; Foreign Countries; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lyrik; Poesie; Language test; Sprachtest; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Sekundarschüler; Collegestudent; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Ausland; Neuseeland
Abstract	Fifty years ago poetry was a key element in the English programme in most secondary schools in New Zealand. Today many teachers avoid teaching poetry for several reasons, one of these being the nature of the assessment of the subject, English, by the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) set up by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA). The outcome has been the setting up of a cycle of disadvantage whereby many students may never have the opportunity to study or write a poem in school. Such students leave school without having encountered literary study at its most intense and refined, which employs the most concentrated use of language and gives valuable access to the imaginative dimension of language. These students will, in their turn, as educators of the next generation, fail to transmit these qualities to others. (Contains 1 table and 24 footnotes.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Wilf Malcolm Institute for Educational Research, University of Waikato. PB 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand. Tel: +64-7-858-5171; Fax: +64-7-838-4712; e-mail: wmier@waikato.ac.nz; Web site: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/index.php?id=1
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10