Becoming a Teacher

Education & Teaching

Brock, Richard

Gibbons, Simon

Glackin, Melissa

Rushton, Elizabeth

Towers, Emma

Schools & Teaching

Open University Press

English and Its Teachers: A History of Policy, Pedagogy and Practice (National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE))

English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools over the past 50 years. 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. Throughout, document and interview data are combined to construct a narrative that details the fascinating and, at times, turbulent history.  The book is divided into two main parts – ‘The age of invention’ and ‘The age of intervention’. The first of these sections details how innovative English teachers and academics helped to develop a new model. 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 English-speaking nations and considers what the future might hold.   English and Its Teachers is a valuable resource for those interested in the teaching of English in secondary schools, from new entrants to the profession, to experienced teachers and academics working in the sector.

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Words, Language & Grammar

Routledge

English and Its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools over the past 50 years. 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. Throughout, document and interview data are combined to construct a narrative that details the fascinating and, at times, turbulent history. The book is divided into two main parts – ‘The age of invention’ and ‘The age of intervention’. The first of these sections details how innovative English teachers and academics helped to develop a new model. 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 English-speaking nations and considers what the future might hold. English and Its Teachers is a valuable resource for those interested in the teaching of English in secondary schools, from new entrants to the profession, to experienced teachers and academics working in the sector.

Policy, Belief and Practice in the Secondary English Classroom: A Case-Study Approach from Canada, England and Scotland

Studies of comparative classroom practice in the teaching of secondary English are limited, especially when it comes to exploration of the day-to-day practice of English teachers in the secondary classroom. This book presents a case study analysis of secondary classroom practice in three countries: Canada, England and Scotland. Each country has had different degrees of state involvement within the secondary English curriculum over the last twenty years. England has had the highest degree of state involvement in that it has had several statutory national curricula and a variety of assessment regimes. Scotland has had a non- statutory curriculum and no national tests and Canada has had no national curriculum at all, with education being determined at province level, and each province varying its policies. 
The research adopts a case study approach involving both classroom observation and interviews with teachers. Through this, the authors explore the impact of state involvement on the reality of what happens in secondary English classrooms. The book invites readers to consider the applicability of the findings to their own contexts, to examine their own practice in the light of this and to consider the nature of the relationships between policy, personal belief and practice in the teaching of English.

Spencer, Ernest

Marshall, Bethan

Hayward, Louise

Bloomsbury Academic

This is the fascinating story of the birth, growth and development of the London Association of the Teaching of English (L.A.T.E.) from its earliest years through to the formation of the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) and thereafter. The work of founder members of L.A.T.E. such as James Britton, Harold Rosen and Nancy Martin was critical in the development of an English teaching pedagogy that still significantly influences the work of teachers across many parts of the world to this day.As a critical account of the rise of a progressive model of English, the book is essential reading for all those involved in the teaching and research of the subject, from prospective and new entrants to the profession to experienced teachers and researchers of English. With its first-hand testimony and unpublished archival material, the book will also be of interest to students and researchers in the field of the history of education and to those concerned with effective models for professional development.In turbulent times in the educational landscape – at the level of curriculum, pedagogy and teacher professionalism – this book offers both a way to understand “how we got here” and draws pertinent lessons from history to point to profitable ways forward in the development of inclusive English teaching and enhanced teacher professionalism.

The London Association for the Teaching of English, 1947-1967: A History

Trentham Books

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