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    A persistent practice : the problem of the documentary lesson

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    Bender, Stuart
    Date
    2008
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Bender, S. 2008. A persistent practice : the problem of the documentary lesson. English in Australia. 43 (2): pp. 27-37.
    Source Title
    English in Australia
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    http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=454433257039271;res=IELHSS
    ISSN
    0046208X
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23555
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    Abstract

    The documentary text, a relative newcomer to the textual armoury of subject English, has received remarkably limited theoretical discussion. It therefore provides an interesting opportunity for the contemporary researcher concerned with the reading/viewing practices that constitute modern textual study. This paper first presents an historical overview of the teaching of documentary texts in Western Australian secondary English classrooms. It is then argued that an alternative mode of study – drawn from existing research in the adjacent field of film studies – caters for a more balanced means of textual inquiry, unscrambling the documentary lesson to more evenly distribute attention across the three practices of the English curriculum; rhetorical instruction, ethical training and aesthetic cultivation.

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