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Walking through the barrier: Josh Part 3

Posted on June 20, 2009 by steveshann

Preface In a month I’ll be teaching a postgraduate education unit called ‘Literacy across the curriculum’, and I’ll be asking each of the 90 students to report on a high school student’s reading. The project is described in more detail … Continue reading →

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The walled city: Josh Part 1

Posted on June 9, 2009 by steveshann

I want to start this post with Josh. Josh is the boy who has agreed to be a part of a small research project I’ve decided to do. The idea is to trial a task I’m going to be setting … Continue reading →

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Alex the parrot, Elizabeth Bennet and the soul’s code

Posted on May 27, 2009 by steveshann

As I read Maja Wilson’s Rethinking Rubrics and followed the discussion about this book on the English Companion Ning, I kept thinking about a growing divide amongst teachers around the question of what we’re meant to be doing in the … Continue reading →

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Searching for meaning in our English classrooms

Posted on February 28, 2009 by steveshann

Michael Umphrey has recently suggested that we are witnessing a large-scale, slow motion holocaust as students succumb to a sense of meaninglessness. I have a half dozen preoccupations as a teacher–things that I keep thinking about. One of them is … Continue reading →

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