Desperate shadows of ‘Belonging’: Revealing pedagogical issues with teaching prescribed English texts in the NSW Higher School Certificate (HSC)

Australian Educational Researcher

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 335-352

  Jogie, Melissa R ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Area of Study; Belonging; Board of Studies; Culturally diverse texts; Discovery; English texts; Higher School Certificate (HSC); Pedagogy; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929997069     PISSN: 03116999     EISSN: 22105328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13384-014-0166-8     Document Type: Article

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