Book Launch – Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers

You are invited to attend the launch of a new book Literary Knowing and the Making of English Teachers

When: Tuesday 4th April

Time: 4.30-6.00 pm

Where: Conference Room Level 9

Please register to attend at EventBrite link here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-literary-knowing-and-the-making-of-english-teachers-tickets-567308463887

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 neo-liberal 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.

Authored by Larissa McLean Davies, Professor of Teacher Education in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne; Brenton Doecke, Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University; Philip Mead, Emeritus Chair in Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne; Wayne Sawyer, Emeritus Professor in the School of Education at Western Sydney University; and Lyn Yates, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. The authors will speak to their chapters at this event.

For further information contact

Dr Michèle Hinton Herrington |  E: m.herrington@unimelb.edu.au