Beyond Measure: The Potential of Storytelling to Challenge Standardised English

Illesca, Bella

doi:10.1080/1358684x.2023.2233083

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“…She is viewing them with a critical eye, even as she is obliged to implement them-and yet she still feels some agency in the process. This is perhaps where Ceridwen's stories paradoxically find their place within a larger story about English teaching in Australia-about the creativity of teachers to facilitate meaningful exchanges with their students in classroom settings despite the constraints under which they are obliged to operate (Owen, 2020; see also Delphine, 2023;Doecke et al, 2014;Dove, 2022;Illesca, 2023).…”

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The value of comparative research in an era of standards-based reforms

Doecke,

Parr,

Owen

2024

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The impact of standards-based reforms on the professional practice of English teachers in Anglophone settings has been well documented. Such reforms typically foreground the importance of a particular form of English and standardised formulations of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, which facilitate easy measurement and comparisons between educational settings. In Australia, the impact has intensified to such an extent that traditional framings of English teacher practice, which emphasize responsiveness to the cultural and linguistic diversity of students, begin to look like a discourse of a bygone era. From an historical perspective, how has this come about? And what does English teacher practice look like in the current policy environment? Can comparative inquiry into language education, such as has been conducted under the auspices of the International Mother Tongue Education Network (IMEN) over the past four decades, provide intellectual resources to resist relentless pressures towards standardisation and measurement? The collaborative inquiry into the professional practice of one author at the heart of this essay arises out of our attempts to explore the potential of IMEN protocols to render the familiar strange and to see her practice with new eyes. In this way we seek to resist the ways standards-based reforms are radically reshaping the praxis of English educators in Australia.

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Section: Brenton: How Does That Translate Into Your Pedagogy As An En...mentioning

confidence: 99%