Issues in English Teaching by Jon Davison (9780415206655)

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This text invites primary and secondary teachers of English to engage in debates about key issues in subject teaching. The issues discussed include: 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 new technologies which are transforming pupils' lived experience of literacy, or literacies the accelerating globalisation of English and the independence of other versions of English from Standard English A National Curriculum with a nationalist perspective on language, literacy and literature cannot fully accommodate English what has become 'naturalised', and 'normalised' in English teaching and the educational and ideological reasons for this hierarchies that have been created in the curriculum and pedagogy and identifying who and what has been given low status or been excluded or marginalised in the development of the current model of English.

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