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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.
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This term was brought to me by Adrian Johns, from his work The Nature Of The Book. Download QR
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My next read, on recommendation from a trusted colleague. Though, I have to return this at some point… Download QR
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Much of the English curriculum treats texts as isolated learning events. Discrete packets of disciplinary knowledge—Freud’s model of the psyche, for instance—are applied to one novel and then abandoned, rather than revisited and transferred across future reading. This is not because certain authors uniquely “fit” particular theories, but because the curriculum has failed to build…
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Discipline of English is becoming a full online curriculum, which could be delivered at home by parents, by tutors, by school mentors, or even by schools. As it is an evolving project, it draws upon my experiences and observations of curriculum at many different schools. And one thing that I’d been very impressed by in…
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There’s many jobs to complete around Discipline of English, and I’ve rather given myself too many threads to tie off! But one I want to get done asap is to turn the Literature lessons into a student workbook. This is inspired by a school I visited once upon a time that printed their own workbooks…
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A canal boat navigates as an electric train passes in the background; modern structures don’t displace older structures but exist alongside. Literary meaning works in the same way.
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Legacy Powerpoints have been modified, adapted, hybridized for the new era of ‘blended’ working. But this is just a hybrid car in an electric era; inefficient and not comparable to a ground up new start.
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Traditional schemes of work intend to ‘foster a love of reading’, and attempt this through prescriptivist reading dogma. This fails to teach the decoding strategies needed to understand literary texts, and you cannot love what you do not understand.
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In my previous post, I attempted to impart some of Adrian Johns’ examination of the durability, permanence or ‘fixity’ inherent in printed literature, to maintain meanings indefinitely. It has been assumed by other academics that the very technology, the print itself and the construction of the book, carries some innate permanence as a priori, but…
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