Is that an IDIOM?

Nat and I have just finished editing the new edition of VATE's journal IDIOM. It's called 'Consuming culture, Creating cuirriculum' and is a collection of papers arising from a conference we organised late in 2005. It's being printed as I write and should be mailed to VATE members and schools early in term two (ie next week). If you are interested in a copy, then join VATE you bludgers! (or email me and I'll see what I can do ... )

Here is the contents list as a tempter ...

Editorial: How we can to be here, now
Scott Bulfin & Natalie Bellis

SECTION 1: MINI CONFERENCE PERSPECTIVES

1. (re)Writing curriculum to popular music: A sociocultural perspective on classroom language and learning
Douglas McClenaghan

2. From code-mixing to code-switching - it's a matter of control: Lessons learned from Aboriginal education
Kathryn Gale

3. A graduate glimpse into teaching taboo topics: A first timer’s perspective on the VATE mini conference
Claire Pritchard

4. Cultural politics in the English classroom: Textually dangerous territory?
Claire Charles

5. this is only about numbers …
alicia sometimes

6. [poem] living with an editor
alicia sometimes

7. My name is Luke, I am twenty-nine years old and I make a zine called You
Luke You

8. Are you going to blog that? Adventures in the blogosphere
Natalie Bellis, Scott Bulfin, Jo McLeay

9. Multimedia: Digital feast or recipe for disaster?
Jill Wilson

10. Teaching multimodal texts: A multiliteracies perspective
Andrew Bawden

11. Connecting you with media texts in the VELS: A perspective on the Australian Children’s Television Foundation
Barbara Carydis

12. Policing, silencing, respectability and exclusions: The relationship between language and living: negotiating terrains of difference
Pippa Kirwan

SECTION 2: TALKING BACK

13. “I will think some more about this question when I don't have yard
duty” : from the english-listserv (english@curriculum.schools.net.au)

14. Phonics, whole language and learning to read: A classroom perspective on the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy
David Smith

15. A reflection on portfolio as ‘authentic’ assessment
Helen Gilfind

16. Bastardising cool: Use and abuse of new technologies in schools
Melanie Cleine

SECTION 3: THE BEST FROM THE REST

17. Earnestly queer: Responding to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest through the critical lens of queer theory
Mark Howie

SECTION 4: PROFESSIONAL READING

18. “ … they know what we like”: Consuming Children: Education-entertainment-advertising
Annabelle Leve