Issues in English Teaching

Taylor & Francis

Issues in English TeachingAuthor(s): Jon Davison, John Moss\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415206655, 978-0415206655\nSynopsis\nIssues in English Teaching invites primary and secondary teachers of English to engage in debates about key issues in subject teaching.\nThe issues discussed include:\n*the increasingly centralised control of the curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy in the school teaching of English in England and Wales as a result of initiatives such as the National Literacy Strategy\n*new technologies which are transforming pupils' lived experience of literacy or literacies\n*the accelerating globalisation of English and the independence of other versions of English from English Standard English. A National Curriculum with a nationalist perspective on language, literacy and literature cannot fully accommodate English\n*what has become 'naturalised' and 'normalised' in English teaching, and the educa.