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Garth Boomer, English teaching and curriculum leadership
Author
Title
Garth Boomer, English teaching and curriculum leadership / Bill Green.
ISBN
1003374883
1040093426
1040093469
9781003374886
9781040093429
9781040093467
9781032449920
9781032449951
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Copyright Notice Date
©2025
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 110 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2024).
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Biographical / Historical Note
Bill Green is Emeritus Professor of Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Summary
"This book provides a broad introduction to the critical work of leading Australian educator Garth Boomer, widely recognised as a significant figure in English teaching. This insightful text provides an accessible introduction to his work, with particular reference to English curriculum and pedagogy, and provides a fascinating account of his journey as a scholar-practitioner, from classroom teaching to the highest levels of the educational bureaucracy. Bill Green explores Boomer's huge influence on literacy education, teacher development, curriculum inquiry, and educational policy, and critically asks why Boomer's insights and arguments about English teaching from the last century have such importance for the field now. This text also focuses on the nature and significance of his curriculum thinking, specifically his arguments and provocations regarding English teaching, the English classroom, and the contexts that infuse and shape them. It constitutes a rich resource for rethinking English teaching in the present day and provides an important contribution to the historical imagination. With all due consideration of the larger context of social life and educational thought, this text will help any student of English in Education and Language Arts obtain a deeper understanding of Boomer's vital contribution to the field of education"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Green, Bill, 1952- Garth Boomer, English teaching and curriculum leadership Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 26, 2024
Series
Key thinkers in English in education and the language arts
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction and overview
Negotiating the (English) curriculum
'Teacher power'
on teachers and teaching
Teaching English? Construing and (de)constructing the territory
Conclusion : neoliberal conditions and Larrikin lessons.
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