Beautiful Wastelands: Tales from the Bog -- The 'Ordinary Schools' of Greater Sydney, Australia

Autor/inn/en	Cheung, Kelly; O'Sullivan, Kerry-Ann
Titel	Beautiful Wastelands: Tales from the Bog -- The 'Ordinary Schools' of Greater Sydney, Australia
Quelle	In: English in Education, 57 (2023) 3, S.169-186 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cheung, Kelly) ORCID (O'Sullivan, Kerry-Ann)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0425-0494
DOI	10.1080/04250494.2023.2215810
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Public Schools; Secondary Schools; Figurative Language; English Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; Educational Quality; Equal Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Sekundarschule; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Australien
Abstract	In the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) there are different systems for secondary schooling for young people and this paper focuses on public comprehensive secondary schools. These are frequently characterised as the "schools of last resort" by parents with the ability to make a choice about which school sector their children will attend. This paper uses spatial metaphors to situate readers into a constituted identity of the local comprehensive public school as "bog standard" while using narrative limnings to illuminate the professional complexities of English teachers' work in these kinds of schools. It reports on the particular narratives of four English teachers working in four different "bog standard" public comprehensive secondary schools located across Greater Sydney. It is hoped that the narratives of this paper dispel some of the affective concerns that contribute so strongly to the imaginary of the threatening comprehensive public school while revealing some complexities for teachers of English navigating schooling inequalities in Greater Sydney, Australia. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01