Rethinking English in Schools Towards a New and Constructive Stage

by Ellis, Viv; Fox, Carol; Street, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780826499226
• ISBN10: 0826499228
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This question lies at the heart of this fascinating monograph, which brings together the diverse perspectives of many leading thinkers about English and literacy education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Why English? Rethinking the school subject	p. 1
How History and Politics Have Shaped English Teaching	p. 15
The picture of development in Vygotskyan theory: renewing the intellectual project of English	p. 17
Deep winters, invincible summers: teaching English for existential purposes	p. 32
English in the history of imperialism: teaching the empire how to read	p. 47
The personal, the community and the society: a response to Section 1	p. 62
Culture as a Verb: Teaching Literatures	p. 71
How critical is the aesthetic? The role of literature in English	p. 73
History, war and politics: taking 'comix' seriously	p. 88
'The uncreating word': some ways not to teach English	p. 102
Refreshing the aesthetic: a response to Section 2	p. 117
Language(s), Multiple Literacies and the Question of 'English'	p. 125
The New Literacy Studies and Multimodality: implications for the subject and the language 'English'	p. 127
Resisting monolingualism in 'English': reading and writing the politics of language	p. 141
English as a multilingual subject: theorstical and research perspectives	p. 158
The multiple languages and literacies of English: a response to Section 3	p. 174
More than 'soldiering on': realizing the potential of teacher education to rethink English in schools	p. 185
Afterword	p. 199
Notes	p. 207
References	p. 214
Index	p. 241
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