[etni] The 'oldies'

From: zakheim <zakheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:42:27 +0200
Dear Colleagues,
These are some thoughts to Adele's conclusion that most of the teachers in her 
literature on-line course voted for the "oldies". Indeed she is right, as I am 
a member of the same literature course. However, when looking at most of the 
pieces of literature vehiculated by teachers in this course, one would say that 
English Literature is mostly limited to what was published by ECB in Israel. 
Most of the examples here are given from our school material and/or the ECB 
collections, and only a minority escape this limited circle. I personally think 
that we are confronted with a worrying symptom: teachers are getting used to 
the same pieces they have been teaching for so many years, and they simply 
don't look for others: lesson plans are ready, everything is prepared in 
advance, it even seems that they have lost any curiosity for what has changed 
in the English and American literature during the last 40-50 years. 

I would like to tell you that the inspectress of Holon and Ramat-Gan, Mrs. 
Marsha Hachmon, is ready to check with us new pieces of literature that we 
would like to introduce. She also organized a very interesting literature 
course last year given by a lady from the British Council, introducing many 
contemporary pieces that can be studied in class. This was a good start that 
should give us the strength to introduce modern and contemporary literature in 
our classrooms. Therefore I feel that when most of the teachers in Adele's 
survey voted for the "oldies", they have actually shown us a symptom that 
should be urgently dealt with. 

Yours,
Relli



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