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There are many artifacts that have an a-priori structure to their design. Almost all text books contain at the beginning, an introduction, a contents page, chapters, glossary, an index and references. This makes perfect sense, but of course is a structure that has only become common and expected through evolution and repetition of the form.…
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Something I will do from time to time with students is to ‘exchange the text’; Drop the novel we’re reading and undertake an Barthesian Mythologies style of investigation. Barthes explored how cultural artifacts such as boxing matches, cars, public figures, steak and chips… He showed that any cultural artifacts before from the same analytical vocabulary…
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The curriculum I am building is strongly influenced by the epistomology of Anderson and Krathwohl’s 2001 text on the cognitive domain. There, it is argued that the methodologies of a discipline should be delineated into the factual, the conceptual, the procedural and the metacognitive knowledges. I have now structured over 30 lessons which constitute the…
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Literature lesson 101 now contains a simple video introduction to the learning objectives. It marks the first video empowered lesson, and could be something that continues to be developed across the virtual department. https://disciplineofenglish.co.uk/welcome-to-discipline-of-english/discipline-of-literature/literature-1xx-factual-knowledge/literature-lesson-101/
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At DisciplineofEnglish.co.uk, we’re making the actual knowledge of English explicit: closed, defined, teachable, and measurable. That means every learning objective becomes a buildable workbook, a markable task, and a teachable concept — not a vague gesture toward an exam.
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The intention of these workbooks is to replace the traditional blank notebook with the key learning already populated; learning objectives, key concept and vocabulary. This knowledge is important enough that it is accurate within their notes and divergence across the class only compounds divergence of attainment and progress. By having it hard-coded into the very…
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Reader-Response theory has now been developed into a lesson within the Literature curriculum. Like all critical theory, they are tough, but the aim of DoE is to make them accessible to everyone.
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The technology of AI facilitated learning is not in the future, it’s in the present. Schools and teachers need to catch up with this, before the technology is ruled by third party and private interests.
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Whilst the posts page contains a new teacher framed article on understanding structuralism, there is also now a lesson too. This lesson is within the procedures of studying Literature and explores a few of the conventional rules that have been outlined by academics already. True structuralist study will not happen at Secondary education (which is…
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A glossary has now been added, and as the selection of terms comes from such a broad ocean of literature, it comes to reflect the identity of our curriculum.
