A Persistent Practice: The Problem of the Documentary Lesson

Autor/in	Bender, Stuart
Titel	A Persistent Practice: The Problem of the Documentary Lesson
Quelle	In: English in Australia, 43 (2008) 2, S.27-37 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-2147
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary Education; English Curriculum; English Instruction; Role of Education; Documentaries; Reader Text Relationship; Content Analysis; Rhetoric; Ethics; Relevance (Education); Aesthetic Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarbereich; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Bildungsauftrag; Documentary film; Documentary films; Dokumentarfilm; Inhaltsanalyse; Rhetorik; Ethik; Relevance; Relevanz; Ästhetische Bildung; Australien
Abstract	The documentary text, a relative newcomer to the textual armoury of subject English, has received remarkably limited theoretical discussion. It therefore provides an interesting opportunity for the contemporary researcher concerned with the reading/viewing practices that constitute modern textual study. This paper first presents an historical overview of the teaching of documentary texts in Western Australian secondary English classrooms. It is then argued that an alternative mode of study--drawn from existing research in the adjacent field of film studies--caters for a more balanced means of textual inquiry, unscrambling the documentary lesson to more evenly distribute attention across the three practices of the English curriculum; rhetorical instruction, ethical training and aesthetic cultivation. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10