Knowledge in the Making
Cultural Memory and English Teaching
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20501964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fleur Diamond (0000-0002-0452-3074, Monash University, corresponding author), Scott Bulfin (0000-0001-9083-5236, Monash University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-44 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Changing English (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1358-684X • E-ISSN: 1469-3585 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1358684x.2020.1853505 |
| OpenAlex | W3127783222 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
The growing interest in the history of curriculum and pedagogy in subject English might be seen as a response to educational reforms that are replacing earlier, progressive understandings of subject English with narrowly technical understandings of teacher professional knowledge and practice. This essay emerges out of an intergenerational, dialogic inquiry with late career and retired English teachers in Victoria, Australia. The study, called ‘The cultural memory of English teaching’, generated a range of personal-professional narratives of teaching English from the 1970s onwards. Key to their recollections was their relative professional autonomy with respect to curriculum making and text selection. This article focuses on two retired English teachers and how curriculum making was central to their efforts to use and develop their professional knowledge. We argue that a cultural memory of English teaching is an increasingly valuable resource for understanding teacher professional knowledge and for evaluating current standards-based imperatives
Autonomy · Curriculum · Dialogic · Linguistics · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Teacher identity and agency in an era of accountability
Beyond ‘what works’
Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research
What is Knowledge in English and Where Does it Come From
Professional Memory in Context
Memory/History
The Grammar of Memory
What Are (English) Lessons For
Memory Loss and Retrieval
English Teachers in a Postwar Democracy
A companion to cultural memory studies
Photography and cultural memory
Mandated literacy assessment and the reorganisation of teachers’ work
Good teachers on dangerous ground
Even the dead will not be safe’
What Place Is This? Transcultural Memory and the Locations of Memory Studies
Calling for ‘urgent national action to improve the quality of initial teacher education’
Teacher professional identity
Feminism and Cultural Memory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |