Is This For Credits?

Claudia shares her personal and professional journey and the urgency she feels that we face some difficult questions about the direction our teaching of Secondary English has drifted in recent years. Her doctoral research brought to our attention that the study of complex literary texts is diminishing in New Zealand education, and is doing so disproportionately quickly in lower-decile schools.

Show Notes

Claudia shares her personal and professional journey and the urgency she feels that we face some difficult questions about the direction in which our teaching of Secondary English has drifted in recent years. Her doctoral research brought to our attention the uncomfortable truth that the study of complex literary texts is diminishing in New Zealand education, and is doing so disproportionately quickly in lower-decile schools.

You may also be interested in reading Claudia’s article published in the latest “English in Aotearoa”, Issue 105.

What is Is This For Credits??

Join season 2 hosts and English teachers, Pere Durie and Luke McFarlane, as they discuss pūrākau from around the motu and explore how we can weave this into our classroom practice.

Season 2 of this NZATE podcast is engineered by Angad Vraich.