A Level Revamped: English Literature, the Universities and the Schools
Titel:
A Level Revamped: English Literature, the Universities and the Schools
Auteur:
Snapper, Gary
Verschenen in:
Changing English
Paginering:
Jaargang 14 (2007) nr. 2 pagina's 107-120
Jaar:
2007-08
Inhoud:
This paper examines current developments in A Level English Literature in the context of a long-running debate about the role of context and interpretation in the course, and explores the influence of university English on this debate. Following discussion of developments around Curriculum 2000, I trace the debate back to the 'theory wars' of the 1970s and 1980s, examining the influence of voices from universities on discourses about the nature of literary study at A Level, and drawing out tensions within the secondary community among traditionalists, liberals and radicals. I suggest that there is now a strong move to bring A Level Literature closer to university English, and link this with similar movements in Australia and the US, where sympathetic curricula and pedagogies, underpinned by critical theory, have been developed.
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