Bibliobibuli

This from Bernama : T he Book City, which the government plans to set up by end of this year, will provide an avenue for publishers and wri...

On The Millions blog [found via ] a high school English teacher called Gene writes in to ask for suggestions to update his syllabus (which...

Just when I thought this society couldn't get any dumber, any less compassionate... along comes news of a teacher who actually cares to...

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you...

Did learning literature at school kill the joy of reading, particularly when you had to deal with set texts for public exams? Jean Hannah E...

We talked the other day about the teaching of literature as part of the English language syllabus , but revisions have also been made to the...

Nurjehan's story in last week's Sunday Times about the introduction of literature into the English syllabus for Malaysian schools ...

I have to tell you this story. I had just a minute or two to chat to Benjamin Zephaniah before the Central Market gig and managed to ask h...

Jamie Khoo talks to poet Jacob Sam-La Rose in StarMag . He says he finds the teaching of poetry in schools: ... somewhat backward. Stud...

I very much enjoyed this piece by David C.E. Tneh in The Sun on his experience teaching Lloyd Fernando's Green is the Colour : Three ...

More influential than prizes, or time on the best seller list, or the applause of the critics in determining the lifespan of a literary text...

Waxing philosophical here and on my soapbox. Moral values. Positive moral values. To turn kids into model Malaysian citizens. When I was tea...

Teaching's no Mr. Holland's Opus as I've said before . You teach thousands of kids in the course of your career, plan tens of t...

Bloghopping (great word!), came across Asiapundit's entry about Malaysian anti-semitism, from where I stepped across to Ranjan's en...

Hadn't taught literature for many years, but it was part of the deal when I came to teach at the teacher training college. It was halfwa...

Have you see the film Mr. Holland's Opus ? Or any number of Hollywood movies which feature teachers. There's always this (obligato...

I hadn't known that Shakespeare was African, until my students taught me. My Form Five girls were studying literature for their West Afr...