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TEACHING AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE

Welcome to the Teaching Australian Literature web site.

This site will evolve over the coming weeks, months and years to become a key resource for teachers of Australian literature in Australia and internationally. It will present information on the current state of teaching and research in Australian literary culture and invite participation in a range of activities and forums.

Join us in the online forum where we are discussing anything and everything to do with teaching Australian texts.

TEACHING AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE SURVEY - 2008

The Teaching Australian Literature Survey is an Australian Learning and Teaching Council funded project, directed by Philip Mead (UTAS) Kerry Kilner (UQ) and Alice Healy (UniSA). The aim of the project is to enhance and to help sustain a new paradigm for the teaching of Australian literature.

The Teaching Australian Literature Survey project was established in 2008 and will:

  • gather and disseminate comprehensive educational data on current and recent past teaching practice of Australian literature in Australian tertiary, upper secondary and overseas institutions
  • enable on-going collaborative communication between disciplinary stakeholders and teaching practitioners across the field of Australian literary studies
  • analyse the needs of the discipline and support a new internationalised paradigm of Australian literature teaching.

The survey will be undertaken with an emphasis on the first-year undergraduate experience of Australian literature learning and teaching, including students' knowledge of Australian literature from year 11 and 12 studies, and the Australian literary texts they encounter on entry to tertiary level.

A Project Manager, Anna Gray, has been appointed and will welcome your contact if you would like to participate in the project.

THE TEACHING AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE SURVEY REPORT - 2009

The findings of the survey will be made available through a report to be published by the ALTC in March 2009. The Report will also be available through the Teaching Australian Literature web site, and hard data will be stored in an interoperable Teaching Experience Database, aligned with AustLit.

THE TEACHING EXPERIENCE DATABASE - THE TED

The Teaching Experience Database will be designed to be updatable, with ongoing input from teachers, academics and education researchers. These outcomes will provide a foundation for a collaborative teaching and learning community to be built around the teaching of Australian literature.

The TED will be available by late 2008.

Support for this project website has been provided by The Australian Learning and Teaching Council, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

The views expressed in the project do not necessarily reflect the views of The Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

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