Reading Publics and a Curriculum in Literature

Autor/in	Sawyer, Wayne
Titel	Reading Publics and a Curriculum in Literature
Quelle	In: Curriculum Journal, 34 (2023) 2, S.231-247 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sawyer, Wayne)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0958-5176
DOI	10.1002/curj.171
Schlagwörter	Reading Instruction; High School Seniors; Secondary School Curriculum; Foreign Countries; Literature; Social Differences; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseunterricht; Ausland; Literatur; Sozialer Unterschied; Australien
Abstract	The notion of reading publics has a secure place in the sociology of Literature but its place in the educational literature around curriculum studies is relatively sparse. Here I address the question of reading publics in a curriculum context by examining school subject curricula whose very raisons d'etre are the creation of a reading public, viz. the curricula in Literature that usually sit inside high school English/Language Arts. I am interested in the extent to which 'reading publics' can themselves be 'read off' such Literature curricula and also in the kind of reading publics that are imagined as being created through such curricula. Under examination are two senior years courses from the "Australian Curriculum: English" which imagine two quite different 'beneficiary publics' which I argue as class-based differences, but which nevertheless both represent what I call a 'weak' version of an imagined beneficiary public. I conclude by asking how a curriculum might imagine a more socially oriented reading public. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01