Reflecting on who I am and where I want to be…
As a lifelong lover of literature, I was drawn to this subject and the immense possibilities it could provide to my future career. Coming from a secondary English background, I already felt fairly confident in my ability to foster a love of reading and use literature to open new avenues for student engagement, empathy and learning.…
Fiction is a powerful tool to enhance learning. Embedding it into lessons supports the acquisition of curriculum content and outcomes, by presenting information in engaging and readily accessible ways, but also enhances it, by further expanding student understanding of key content at the same time as embedding valuable cross-curricular concepts. Using literature as a pathway…
What is literary learning? A simple answer would be that literary learning means learning by reading literature. However, I am learning that it is not just about being exposed to literary texts, but it is the strategies that are embedded within the learning, that encourage dialogic processes and critical and creative thinking. It is the…
An integral part of the role of TL is engaging students, teachers and the broader school community to ensure fictional texts are valued and embedded into teaching and learning programs. TL’s are in a unique position to support learning within a school as they work with teachers across all learning areas, and therefore should engage…
Climate fiction is often categorised as a sub-genre of speculative fiction, which draws on the contextual fears of its composers and encapsulates the anxieties of its era, in order to transpose these issues into a possible future. Unlike typical science fiction, speculative fiction tends to focus on the human condition and response to this new…
It is hard for me to consider how to foster a love of reading in young people who might not already do so, simply because it has always come so naturally to me! I’m coming to this degree from a secondary English teaching background, but driven primarily for my deep passion for literature. To appropriate…