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China and secondary school textbooks surface and deep learning approaches

- Zeegers, Margaret, Zhang, Xiaohong

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Zhang, Xiaohong
  • Date: 2004
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of the Book Vol. 2, no. (2004), p. 255-258
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  • Description: This paper explores features of secondary school English as Second Language textbooks in use in China. It examines a number of textbooks in relation to surface and deep learning approaches,particularly as these relate to western constructs of Chinese learners.
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  • Description: 2003001332

From the scriptoria to the printing press : A consideration of scholarship and library

- Zeegers, Margaret, Barron, Deirdre

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Barron, Deirdre
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of the Book Vol. 6, no. 4 (2009), p. 9-16
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  • Description: Ancient social systems have exhibited constructs of scholarships based on social configurations and requirements that have involved tribal, temple, village or palace elders teaching and developing their apprentices using oral communication such as storytelling, recitation of recipes, formulas and chants, plus work in the field itself as young people developed as midwives, shamans, carpenters, and so on. While writing is a mighty technological achievement of some 5,000 years ago, perhaps even mightier is that of the printing press about 500 years ago. It is generally held to be the development that marked the end of Medieaval times, and has had an even more profound an effect than the first moon landing, so much did it shake the foundations of society. For one thing, the same elders entrusted with the education of the young were able to use print as part of their education protocols. This in itself enabled a shift in constructs of scholarship, as it was possible to record in print what had formerly been kept in memory. The possibilities that emerged were those of teaching learners how to develop knowledge from information, and not rely on information alone. Such possibilities have not really been taken up until fairly recent times. Emerging new paradigms present scholarship in the light of information work whose dependence on information storage systems has already transformed the relationship between scholarship and libraries to a stage where the dominant partner is the library, scholarship becoming marginalised in the so-called information age. Such a sea change requires a major adjustment on the part of both partners in what has for so long been a most productive relationship. To be able to understand the magnitude and order of the change, it is necessary to take a close look at what has underpinned it for so long. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
  • Description: 2003007960

The chronotope and Australian children's and young adult books

- Zeegers, Margaret

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret
  • Date: 2005
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of the Book Vol. 3, no. 1 (2005), p. 19-24
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  • Description: The chronotope is suggested as going beyond the didactic to embrace the artistic and cultural in children's responses to their reading and writing. The essentially solipsistic concerns of young children and young adults in schools may be engaged using the suggestive possibilities of the chronotope as an organising feature of teaching reading and writing in a number of genres and production of text types, affording new ways of approaching reading and writing in classrooms. The chronotope opens up spaces for literary and pedagogical responses that takes teachers and students beyond the traditional and conventional referents of characterisation, plot, theme, setting, style, and so on. While this paper's focus is on literature designed for Australian children and young adults, the concepts may be applied more generally in relation to literature from within other cultures as well.
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  • Description: 2003001334

Living on the planet of the readers: Exploring books beyond the boundaries of literacy

- Zeegers, Margaret, Smith, Patricia

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Smith, Patricia
  • Date: 2004
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of the Book Vol. 2, no. (2004), p. 121-127
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  • Description: Regardless of the literacy competencies that are basic to the mechanics of reading, there is a much larger and richer view of reading that goes well beyond such competencies. There are whole worlds of literature to explore as well, and it can be a most satisfying experience for adults and children as they explore them together. The 21st Century has emerged from a long tradition of culturally satisfying and spiritually delighting engagement with the language arts that are embodied in literature, and not just literacy. This paper explores some of those things from our more ancient pasts, and examines their relevance for adults, particularly parents and teachers, and children in the present age in the area of literature. In doing so, it goes beyond concepts of literacy, exploring notions of literature.
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  • Description: 2003001331

Cultural explorations of time and space: Indigenous Australian artists-in residence, conventional narratives and children's text creation

- Zeegers, Margaret

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Journal article
  • Relation: Papers: Explorations into children's literature Vol. 13, no. 1 (2006), p. 138-144
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  • Description: This paper details a project, funded by the University of Ballarat in Victoria, which addresses a local problem of schools' lack of acknowledgement of their being positioned on traditional owners' land. In addressing this issue, I am using two texts, My Place (Wheatley and Rawlins 1987) and Who am I? The Diary of Mary Talence (Heiss 2004) to engage the participants in discussions to make visible what has been invisible; that is, the issue of traditional Indigenous Australian ownership of the land on which the school is placed. Taking up notions of deconstruction from poststructuralist theory, I have looked to these texts as ways of disrupting the taken-for-granted occupation of public space, that is, I examine the language used to position the readers and 'yield up the ideologies that inform them' (Bradford 2001, p.9).
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  • Description: 2003001844
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