English and Its Teachers: A History of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice Gibbons Simon
English and Its Teachers: A History of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice Gibbons Simon English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools…
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English and Its Teachers: A History of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice Gibbons Simon
English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools over the past 50 years. Throughout, document and interview data are combined to construct a narrative that details the fascinating and, at times, turbulent history. Initially charting the rise of a new progressive approach in the 1960s, the book then considers the implications for the subject and its teachers of three decades of central policy intervention.
The first of these sections details how innovative English teachers and academics helped to develop a new model. The book is divided into two main parts - 'The age of invention' and 'The age of intervention'. The second section explores how successive governments have sought to shape English through policy.
A final part draws comparisons with the teaching of the subject in other major