Question for David Campbell...
David, when I went to High School we had English as a compulsory subject every year. In final year it was English Expression and English Literature. Not once in that six years was the name of Lawson, Paterson or Dennis mentioned in English classes. Not once. (I can only recall reading "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner")
Mind you, it may be different these days, and you may enlighten me on that....
I hope it is different.
In fact, parts of a novel that was compulsory reading in Form 6 had juicy parts that even today might make one blush... let alone stir up the hormones of sixteen year olds! Literature. Wish I still had that book!
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So.... I would appreciate it if, from your own teaching experience, you could shed some light on why were Australia's great poets rigorously excluded from the Victorian school curriculum.. ? What is the policy today?
It has bugged me for years.... Is it all different now, and I am behind the times?
Cheers, Gary