Writing = Learning examines the role of writing in various teaching and learning contexts. The focus of the collection moves between investigating the ways that students' writing is conceptualised in order to enhance students' engagement in their learning, the ways that students writing is responded to and assessed by teachers in order to improve learning, and the ways in which professionals' writing is utilised to enrich professional learning.

The fifth book in the highly successful Wakefield AATE (Australian Association for the Teaching of English) Interface...

Literary Praxis: A Conversational Inquiry into the Teaching of Literature explores the teaching of literature in secondary schools. It does this from the vantage point of educators in a range of settings around the world, as they engage in dialogue with one another in order to capture the nature of their professional commitment, the knowledge they bring to their work as literature teachers, and the challenges of their professional practice as they interact with their students. The core of the book comprises accounts of their day-to-day teaching by Dutch and Australian educators. These...

Becoming a Teacher of Language and Literacy explores what it means to be a literacy educator in the 21st century. It promotes a reflective and inquiry-based approach to literacy teaching and examines three central questions: 1. How do teachers approach the teaching of reading and writing, speaking and listening within a digital age? 2. How do teachers approach the standardisation of literacy, including high-stakes testing? 3. How do teachers work within the framework of the Australian Curriculum: English? The book covers a range of contemporary topics in language and literacy education,...