Investigating literary knowledge in the making of English teachers
The Literary Knowledge project team undertook two days of planning for the project on 24 and 25 October 2017 at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Planning for the project included around year two interviews with early career English teachers, stakeholder consultation, and analysis of survey data.
Thanks to all the team for flying in for this productive session!
Project CI Professor Philip Mead will present the 2017 Returning Harvard Chair in Australian Studies Lecture at the University of Melbourne on Wednesday 20 September 2017.
Indigenous sovereignty: Activism and the imagination.
The recent ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’ (May, 2017), and the Final Report of the Referendum Council (June, 2017) are significant expressions of a rapidly evolving discourse on sovereignty in Australia.
Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) is a futuristic meditation on the limits of sovereignty from an Indigenous perspective: what if national borders disappear under the rising waters of global warming? What if national governments are superseded by global rule?
The Swan Book explores these scenarios in a complex interplay of utopian and dystopian modes. This lecture argues that Alexis Wright’s work is an instance of how the Indigenous world novel can address real world issues of Indigenous rights and national sovereignty.
For more information and to register for this free event please click here.
Our Project Coordinator Lucy Buzacott and PhD student Rebekah Keenan Mount were involved in chairing events at the 2017 Melbourne Writers Festival as part of the schools program.
Lucy chaired a session called ‘How I Came to Australia’ with Abdi Aden, Adolfo Aranjuez and Sasha Petrova while Rebekah hosted a conversation with Alison Lester about how to make a book.
Both sessions resulted in fantastic questions and discussion with the students – check out the Melbourne Writers Festival website for more events this week!
A/Prof Larissa McLean Davies will present the keynote address at the 2017 English Teachers Association of Queensland (ETAQ) Annual State Conference on Saturday 19 August 2017.
Teachers can register for the conference now! Click here.
The official launch of the Investigating Literary Knowledge in the Making of English Teachers project was held on Friday 2 December 2016. Thank you to all who attended the event and participated in the discussions about English teaching and the role of literature in subject English.
