Good DreamsBad Dreams: Text Selection and Censorship in Australia |
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| Authors: | Brenton Doecke Terry Hayes |
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| Affiliation: | Editor, English in Australia, the journal of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English, and Senior Lecturer in Education at Monash Uniuersity;President-Elect, the Australian Association for the Teaching of English, and Extension Education Officer, the Joint Council of Subject Associations of Victoria, formerly English and Drama teacher, Hawthorn Secondary College, Melbourne |
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| Abstract: | This essay looks at recent debates about text selection and censorship in Australia. Our aim is to point beyond the terms in which the censorship debate has been conducted in the mass media, and to prompt reflection on how texts are used in English classrooms. We shall raise questions of language and cultural identity in secondary English teaching, arguing the need for a culturally inclusive curriculum that is responsive to the attitudes and values of secondary school students. |
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| Keywords: | Text selection censorship literature literacy culture canonicity |
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