Bringing Back Boomer: A Call to Critical Arms

Autor/in	Miller, Andrew
Titel	Bringing Back Boomer: A Call to Critical Arms
Quelle	In: English in Australia, 48 (2013) 1, S.84-94 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-2147
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; English Teachers; English Instruction; College Faculty; Foreign Countries; Language Arts; Literacy Education; Professional Identity; Learning Theories; Educational Change; Teaching Methods; Curriculum Development; Classroom Environment; Skill Development; Student Development; Activism; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; English langauage lessons; Fakultät; Ausland; Sprachkultur; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Bildungsreform; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Australien
Abstract	How might a tertiary English teacher use Garth Boomer's ideas on "teaching against the grain" to challenge the rules and assumptions that dominate the Academic Language and Learning (ALL) industry in the university sector today? How might such a teacher use Boomer's ideas to enact "emancipatory pedagogies" (or something like them) in an otherwise conservative landscape? In this paper I endeavour to imagine an alternative teaching identity and an alternative pedagogy by re-reading and re-appropriating some of Boomer's ideas of the late 1980s and applying them, selectively, to a twenty-first century context. To challenge the status quo, Boomer advocates a revolution in "explicitness" and "honesty" -- even "perversity" and "courage" -- to call education at all levels as it is. This paper responds to Boomer's call to critical arms and critical perversity by imagining as a means to enacting. After all, as Boomer (1988) suggests, "Making out is a forerunner to making changes" (p. 69). And who better to start this habit-shattering praxis than Boomer himself. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Australian Association for the Teaching of English. English House, 416 Magill Road, Kensington Gardens, SA 5068 Australia. Tel: +61-8-8332-2845; Fax: +61-8-8333-0394; e-mail: aate@aate.org.au; Web site: http://www.aate.org.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10