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Publication Date: 1999
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Testing the Benchmarks: Literacy and Year 7.
Sawyer, Wayne
English in Australia, n124 p8-15 Apr 1999
Discusses Margaret Gills's theory of two discourses operating in "the politics of literacy": (1) the discourse that stresses a broad ranging notion of literacy and warns against a narrow, functional definition; and (2) the discourse that argues that Australia is in the middle of a major literary crisis. Asks what problem the National Literacy Benchmarks are meant to solve. (NH)
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Cultural Awareness, Emergent Literacy, Literacy, National Standards, Political Attitudes, Politics of Education, Secondary Education, Student Evaluation
Australian Association for the Teaching of English, P.O. Box 3203, Norwood, South Australia 5067, Australia; e-mail: aatemail@nexus.edu.au
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Language: English
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