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Title Rethinking English in schools : towards a new and constructive stage / edited by Viv Ellis, Carol Fox and Brian Street
Published London ; New York : Continuum, [2007]
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Description xiii, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Series Continuum studies in education
Continuum studies in education.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x -- Chapter 1- WHY ENGLISH? RETHINKING THE SCHOOL SUBJECT CC -- Viv Ellis, with Carol Fox and Brian Street -- Section 1: How History And Politics Have Shaped English Teaching -- Chapter 2 ? THE PICTURE OF DEVELOPMENT IN VYGOTSKYAN THEORY: RENEWING THE INTELLECTUAL PROJECT OF ENGLISH CC -- Tony Burgess -- Chapter 3 ? DEEP WINTERS, INVINCIBLE SUMMERS: TEACHING ENGLISH FOR EXISTENTIAL PURPOSES nn -- Bob Fecho, with Kristi Amatucci & Sarah Skinner -- Chapter 4 ? ENGLISH IN THE HISTORY OF IMPERIALISM: TEACHING THE EMPIRE HOW TO READ EE Patrick Walsh -- Chapter 5 ? INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNITY AND SOCIETY: A RESPONSE TO SECTION 1 bb -- Janet Laugharne -- Section 2: Culture As A Verb: Teaching Literatures -- Chapter 6 ? HOW CRITICAL IS THE AESTHETIC? THE ROLE OF LITERATURE IN ENGLISH nn -- Ray Misson and Wendy Morgan -- Chapter 7 ? HISTORY, WAR AND POLITICS: TAKING ?COMIX? -- SERIOUSLY bb -- Carol Fox -- Chapter 8 ? ?THE UNCREATING WORD?: SOME WAYS NOT TO TEACH ENGLISH xx -- Joy Alexander -- Chapter 9 ? REFRESHING THE AESTHETIC: A RESPONSE TO SECTION 2 zz -- Sue Dymoke -- Section 3: Language(S), Multiple Literacies And The Question Of English -- Chapter 10 ? THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES AND MULTIMODALITY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SUBJECT AND THE LANGUAGE ?ENGLISH? ss -- Brian Street -- Chapter 11 ? RESISTING MONOLINGUALISM IN ?ENGLISH?: READING AND WRITING THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE EE -- Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu -- Chapter 12 ? ENGLISH AS A MULTILINGUAL SUBJECT: THEORETICAL AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES VR -- Janina Brutt-Griffler and James Collins -- Chapter 13 ? THE MULTIPLE LANGUAGES AND LITERACIES OF ENGLISH: A RESPONSE TO SECTION 3 qq -- Suzanne M. Miller -- Chapter 14 ? MORE THAN ?SOLDIERING ON?: REALISING THE POTENTIAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION TO RETHINK ENGLISH IN SCHOOLS aa -- Viv Ellis -- Afterword Nn -- Shirley Brice Heath
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [214]-240) and index
Subject English language -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects.
English language -- Study and teaching.
English literature -- Study and teaching.
Literature -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects.
Author Ellis, Viv, 1965-
Fox, Carol.
Street, Brian V.
LC no. 2007026644
ISBN 0826499228 (hbk.)
9780826499226 (hbk.)