Keywords: English Teacher
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dimitrios Bouras
- 04 June 2008
4 Comments
In Australia I had never been taunted because of my migrant
father, but after moving to Greece I was ridiculed and bullied because I was half-foreign, and because my mother was
entirely so. I began to do my best to deny her existence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 30 May 2008
1 Comment
A change of British statutes in 1815 gave mental illness a new public face that was unequivocally female. Mad, Bad and Sad is a new study that charts the role of madness as a barometer of the values, concerns and morals of its day.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 16 May 2008
1 Comment
Between 1968 and 1981, performance spaces such as the Pram Factory in Melbourne facilitated a flourishing of the Australian theatre scene. Initially, the idea that the local product might be inferior was insufficient reason for preferring the import.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 07 March 2008
1 Comment
Landscape has long been acknowledged as central to Australian colonial history. In contrast to the harsh conditions endured by
settlers in Sydney Cove, convicts in Tasmania experienced a veritable Eden.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 09 January 2008
As
Australians wait for a Federal election, Hilary Glow’s book is timely
evidence that what is wrong with the world is what politicians would
have us believe. Contemporary playwrights are wrestling with the issues
seen as crucial to the notion of who we really are as Australians in the twenty-first century. From 17 October 2007.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 13 December 2007
The recurrence of the ‘big' issues of politics, religion, and sexuality in Best Australian Essays 2007 is predictable enough. But the essays become more interesting when we see particular trends, such as surveillance and the individual's right to privacy, emerge in each.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Coleridge
- 12 December 2007
1 Comment
Russia's apathetic young people assert that even if they vote, nothing will change. They don't actually want things to change. They compare Russia with the troubled Yeltsin years. The economy and lifestyle have boomed, so why worry about free speech?
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 29 November 2007
Alexandra Coghlan graduated from Oxford University in 2006 with BAs
in English Literature and Music, and completed an MPhil in Criticism
and Culture at Trinity College, Cambridge. She currently lives in
Sydney, where she works as a teacher and freelance journalist prior to
returning to Oxford for a DPhil in October 2008.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Richard Flynn
- 18 October 2007
Richard Flynn is a former teacher of senior English and drama at St Ignatius College, Adelaide. He has an online business specialising in copy editing.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Gierck
- 17 October 2007
3 Comments
Using anecdotal evidence to back up government policy is dangerous. There are as many positive anecdotes about Africans as Minister Andrews has negative. Teaching refugees, you build relationships, offer students the opportunity to express themselves, and know that their life stories are respected.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 17 October 2007
As Australians wait for a Federal election, Hilary Glow’s book is timely evidence that what is wrong with the world is what politicians would have us believe. Contemporary playwrights are wrestling with the issues seen as crucial to the notion of who we really are as Australians in the twenty-first century.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Barbara Chapman
- 27 June 2007
Barbara Chapman is a writer, and has also been a teacher of English to adult migrants and refugees for over 20 years.
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