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Shah, Mehrunissa – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2020
This essay is a reflection on my teaching of "Jane Eyre" to a small intervention class in a large London secondary school. It is a reflection on the nature of reading as set out historically in educational policy and within hierarchies of power in school, in juxtaposition with the lived experiences of reading in the classroom. It is an…
Descriptors: Nineteenth Century Literature, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
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McDonnell, Liam – Teaching History, 2019
Struck by his GCSE students' bewildered expressions when studying source extracts, Liam McDonnell decided to adopt a new approach to source analysis. Inspired by the work of other history teachers, McDonnell decided to use an anthology of substantial sources when studying nineteenth-century Whitechapel in London. By revisiting the sources at…
Descriptors: Historians, History, History Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Maxwell, Catherine – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2010
This article reviews a writing-intensive course on nineteenth-century aesthetic prose devised for the undergraduate curriculum of the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, and considers the results to date. Using examples of students' coursework, the article examines the use of logbooks and creative exercises, considers…
Descriptors: Prose, Writing (Composition), Nineteenth Century Literature, Courses