Literature, especially the acknowledged classics, deserves pre-eminent status in the school syllabus, writes Kevin Donnelly.Is there a place for popular culture, represented by films, text messages, internet chat-rooms and computer games, in the English classroom, alongside great literature? Mark Howie, the vice-president of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English, believes there is.At the Senate inquiry into standards in education, Howie argued that “given the realities of t…
