- Title
- Re-membering the body in English education
- Creator
- Albright, James
- Relation
- English Teaching: Practice & Critique Vol. 10, Issue 3, p. 1-8
- Relation
- http://edlinked.soe.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/view.php?view=true&id=55&p=1
- Publisher
- University of Waikato School of Education
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- The preparation of this issue of English Teaching: Practice & Critique has offered me the opportunity to reflect on how the body has figured in my work and study, first as a teacher and later a researcher. Memory is as much a bodily re-experiencing of sense and feeling as it is a mental process. As I recollect back to my pre-service induction into primary English language arts teaching in the early 1970s, I recall that my training afforded no appreciation of the bodily nature of reading and writing or teaching for that matter. My classmates and I were apprenticed in the received wisdom and professional lore on how best to teach such things as letter recognition and phonics. I remember the feel of the bright winter’s, Nova Scotia sun streaming through the wall of windows warming our prefab, barrack-like classroom, still in use some 25 years after Dalhousie University hastily constructed it to house the influx of post-war veterans. I remember the authoritative look and voice of the Sister of Charity who taught us the ins and outs of the current basal series employed in the province’s primary schools.
- Subject
- English education; the body; literacy; teaching
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1061981
- Identifier
- uon:17027
- Identifier
- ISSN:1175-8708
- Language
- eng
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