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Historical Perspectives on Reading Pedagogy in Australia: Practices, Teachers, and Literacy Education

This research investigates the evolution of reading pedagogy in Australia, focusing on historical continuities and changes in teaching practices from the mid-19th century to the present. It explores the role of teachers, the relationships between teacher, pupil, and text, and broader debates surrounding literacy education. By examining these historical aspects, the study aims to inform current teacher preparation and professional learning. Key contributions include the analysis of reading lessons shaped by materials and pedagogical techniques throughout different eras.

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Historical Perspectives on Reading Pedagogy in Australia: Practices, Teachers, and Literacy Education

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  1. Historical aspects of reading pedagogy in Australia Researching the reading lesson

  2. Teaching reading in Australia: An historical investigation of early reading pedagogy, the figure of the teacher and literacy education • What are the historical (dis)continuities in the ideals and practices associated with the teacher of beginning reading from the mid-19th century to the present? • How has the teacher-pupil-text relationship in beginning reading pedagogy been configured in different periods and places? • What can be learned from the history of debates about the teaching of reading that can inform teacher preparation and professional learning?

  3. Associated papers • Annette Patterson, Phil Cormack, and Bill Green (2010, under review) Reading primers and reading instruction: An historical perspective. submitted to Paedagogica Historica. • Phil Cormack (2011, in press) Reading Pedagogy, ‘Evidence’ and Education Policy: Learning from History? Australian Education Researcher.

  4. The reading lesson • a primal scene of schooling • shaped by the kinds of materials available for reading, and the pedagogical techniques deployed to shape young readers • the material and discursive forces at work that foreground approaches or technologies at different times

  5. The papers • Re-reading ‘the reading lesson’: Introduction and overview – Bill Green • From rhetoric to ethics: The uses of instructional materials in the teaching of reading – Annette Patterson • A genealogy of teaching practices in the reading lesson – Phil Cormack

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