Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers : The Role of Literature in Shaping English Teachers’ Professional Knowledge and Identities

著者名：McLean Davies, Larissa/Doecke, Brenton/Mead, Philip/Sawyer, Wayne/Yates, Lyn

Routledge（2022/09/29発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780367618681
• eISBN：9781000640847

Description

At a time when knowledge is being 're-valued' as central to curriculum concerns, subject English is being called to account. Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers puts long-standing debates about knowledge and knowing in English in dialogue with an investigation of how English teachers are made in the 21st century.

This book explores, for the first time, the role of literature in shaping English teachers’ professional knowledge and identities by examining the impacts, in particular, of their own school teaching in their ‘making’. The voices of early career English teachers feature throughout the work, in a series of vignettes providing reflective accounts of their professional learning. The authors bring a range of disciplinary expertise and standpoints to explore the complexity of knowledge and knowing in English. They ask: How do English teachers negotiate competing curriculum demands? How do they understand literary knowledge in a neoliberal context? What is core English knowledge for students, and what role should literature play in the contemporary curriculum? Drawing on a major longitudinal research project, they bring to light what English teachers see as central to their work, the ways they connect teaching with their disciplinary training, and how their understandings of literary practice are contested and reimagined in the classroom.

This innovative work is essential reading for scholars and postgraduate students in the fields of teacher education, English education, literary studies and curriculum studies.

Table of Contents

1. Knowledge, making and English teachers, Larissa McLean Davies and Wayne Sawyer 2. Autobiographies of the question, Brenton Doecke, Larissa McLean Davies, Philip Mead, Wayne Sawyer, and Lyn Yates 3. Literary knowledge debates, Larissa McLean Davies and Wayne Sawyer 4. Curriculum and knowledge questions: Is English peculiar? Lyn Yates Vignette: Katya, Vignette: Scott 5. Shifting relationships between subject and discipline: English in Australia, Brenton Doecke and Philip Mead 6. Literary　knowledge in the wider field: Reflections from literary studies academics, teacher educators and curriculum authorities, Larissa McLean Davies　Vignette: Janet, Vignette: Clare 7. English teachers’ conceptions of literary knowledge, Larissa McLean Davies 8. Literary sociability: Making meaning in English classrooms, Brenton Doecke and Philip Mead Vignette: Craig, Vignette: Amaris 9. Knowledge proxies: Text selection and assessment, Lyn Yates 10. Literature and literacy: The ever-varying constants, Wayne Sawyer Vignette: Rebecca, Vignette: Leo 11. Knowing and making: Classroom, curriculum and pedagogy, Wayne Sawyer 12. Crossing institutional boundaries: Negotiating a professional identity as an English teacher, Brenton Doecke and Philip Mead 13. Narratives, insights and next steps for questions of literary knowledge and English teaching, Larissa McLean Davies, Brenton Doecke, Philip Mead, Wayne Sawyer and Lyn Yates