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Podcast title	Trippin' Tongue
Website URL	http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com...
Description	texts speak in progress
Updated	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:44:49 GMT
Category	Education
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1. Bede Griffiths http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 9.32Mb) Description:
2. Characterization of Protagonists in 'The English Teacher http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 4.64Mb) Description: Discuss the development of the characters in the Novel, paying close attention to Krishna and Susila Concerns --> Author's Craft (characterization) --> Effects Eastern Styled Education Vs Colonial system --> Krishna’s development as a teacher --> ? Question of coping with death and separation --> Krishna’s development as a pupil of life --> ? The ‘left-alone’ system of bringing up a child --> Krishna’s growth as a father --> ? Relationship as life-giving; even beyond death --> Susila’s change from being Krishna’s pupil to his guru --> ?
3. Life and its Quality http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 3.72Mb) Description: "Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?" Parker Palmer Discuss the idea with reference to the poems in Poems Deep and Dangerous.
4. Colonial Mentality and the Human Condition http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 2.21Mb) Description: How does Narayan indite the colonial mentality to control and subjugate? Notes: - Narayan present the colonial mentality in the post-colonial mimicry of Western Education. - In the person of Krishna, Narayan condemns the western style having reduced them to a 'nation of marons' - In the situation of the college, the lessons are dead and deadening, with focus on the most trivial things, thus inviting us to laugh at the educational endeavour - On the other hand, in the guru-disciple relationship seen between Susila and Krishna, Krishna and Leela and then Leela and the headmaster, we catch a glimpse of the potential of education; this invites us to compare between different systems of education: the 'leave alone system', and one that seeks to shape culture. - Narayan also uses Anderson Lane to symbolize the futility and pomposity of human hubris - However Narayan also present this (post-)colonialist attempt to control as part of the human condition - Even Krishna, who resist the colonial-styled education cannot leave his daughter alone - Even Krishna must attempt to excise his griefs through manipulating his own psychology and cannot leave time and nature to work out his sadness - Thus at the close of the novel, Krishna does not deliver his seething letter of resignation; the enemy is recognize not in an external other (Mr Brown) but in the self.
5. War Poetry Discussion I http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 1.11Mb) Description: Which war poem strikes you? Is humour appropriate for a serious subject? Which treatment of children during war time strikes you as significant?
6. Identity, Control and Fate http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 1.38Mb) Description: Essential Question: "How does Narayan indite the colonialist endeavour to control and subjugate?" - Krishna does have control over his choices. - in Narayan's world, fate does not negate choices - Krishna opted to take on a vocation that is far more life-giving than the colonial practice of education - However, Krishna lets go of his educating of Leela to let her to take ownership of her own learning - He comes to terms with death: the most powerful symbol of a fate that no man can resist Other points discussed: How does an omniscient characterization of Susila contribute to the narrative? How is his de-stabilizing crucial to Krishna's growth?
7. From Bayonet Training http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 1.96Mb) Description: Pupils of GEP Year 3 (2006) discuss their responses to 'Bayonet Training' by Vernon Scannell.
8. Children in Wartime http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 2.48Mb) Description: Year 3 (2006) pupils discuss Isobel Thrilling's Chidren in Wartime and reflects on the use of the innocent first person point of view.
9. The English Teacher http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 1.54Mb) Description: Year 4 pupils of 2006 discuss the guru-disciple relationship between Susila and Krishna. Essential Question: 2) How does this form of education that takes place between the protagonists differ from the manner of teaching Krishna employ at his college? Text: The English Teacher Chapter 5
10. The English Teacher http://tuckleong.podOmatic.com... download (audio/mpeg, 1.79Mb) Description: Year 4 pupils of 2006 discuss the guru-disciple relationship between Susila and Krishna. Essential Question: Discuss the teacher-pupil relationship between Susila and Krishna in this extract. How else is this relationship typified elsewhere before this extract? (Passage-Based Question) Text: The English Teacher Chapter 5