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McKenzie, Cori Ann; Jarvie, Scott – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to draw from work in the field of English that questions the "limits of critique" (Felski, 2015) in order to consider the limits of critical literacy approaches to literature instruction. The study focuses on the relational and affective demands that resistant reading places on readers and texts.…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, English Instruction, Language Arts, Literacy Education
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Green, Andrew – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2013
This paper explores the treatment of London by two authors who are profoundly influenced by the concept of the power of place and the nature of urban space. The works of Peter Ackroyd, whose writings embody, according to Onega (1997, p. 208) "[a] yearning for mythical closure" where London is "a mystic centre of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Authors, English Literature
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Burnett, Cathy; Merchant, Guy – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
In this paper we look at what the critical tradition in education has to offer to the phenomenon of social media. Through an overview and evaluation of the approaches advocated by practitioners of critical literacy and critical media literacy, we illustrate the limitations of applying these frameworks to the fluid and densely interwoven spaces of…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology, Internet
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Locke, Terry; Cleary, Alison – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
As an approach to literary study, critical literacy is not a widespread practice in New Zealand secondary schools. This article draws on a major project on teaching literature in the multicultural classroom that take place over two years in 2008-2009. In it we report on a case study where a Year 13 English teacher designed and tested a novel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Case Studies, English Curriculum
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Cremin, Teresa; Baker, Sally – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2010
In the light of increased interest in teachers' professional identities, this paper addresses the under-researched area of teachers' writing identities and examines the factors which influence how primary phase teachers are positioned and position themselves as teacher-writers in the literacy classroom. It draws on case studies of two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Authors, Writing for Publication
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Kabilan, Muhammad Kamarul; Kamarudin, Fadzliyati – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2010
This article reports on a teacher's experiment with Reader's Theatre (RT), an interactive play reading activity with elements of reading aloud, drama and theatre, for her 20 unmotivated learners of literature in a premier school in Malaysia. Using RT, the students staged Angela Wright's "Potato People". The procedures and design of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Directed Reading Activity, Experiential Learning
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Hayik, Rawia – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
In a teaching context fraught with conflicts on religious and ethnic backgrounds, I decide as a teacher researcher to address these issues with Israeli-Arab middle school students in my EFL classroom. Picture books on religious diversity and minority issues are used as a springboard for providing spaces for students to discuss these issues orally,…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Middle School Students, Student Diversity, Religion