2024
DOI: 10.1108/etpc-08-2024-0127
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““The last bastion of democracy”: teachers’ perceptions of the democratic potential of English curriculum”

Georgina Barton,
Stewart Riddle,
Nathan Lowien

Abstract: Purpose Faced with increasing systemic constraints and pressures, secondary school English teachers often implement transactional approaches to pedagogy and curriculum aimed at improving student results on external exams, which are then used to rank schools. Despite the pressure to teach this way, teachers acknowledge the power of literature, literacy and language in the English curriculum as vehicles for educating students to be critical readers of texts for a democratic society. As such, the purpose of this … Show more

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