Debates in English Teaching

Jon Davison has been Professor of Teacher Education in four UK universities, including the Institute of Education, University of London, where he was also Dean. Caroline Daly is Reader in Education at University College London Institute of Education, UK, and Associate Professor at the University of South Wales.

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Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Richard Andrews

Preface

Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges

Introduction

Jon Davison and Caroline Davy

1. Literacy and Social Class

Jon Davison

2. English and Difference

John Yandell

3. Unable to Go it Alone: re-stating the case for a strengthened English/Media relationship

Andrew Burn and Steve Connolly

4. Reading and Writing Media Texts: critical digital literacy in the making

John Potter

5. Literacy and Mental Wellbeing

Anne Teravainen-Goff and Christina Clark

6. Creativity in English Learning and Teaching

Sue Dymoke

7. Reading for Pleasure: challenges and opportunities

Teresa Cremin

8. Wheeling out the Big Guns: the literary canon in the English classroom

Jane Coles

9. Living Language, Live Debates: grammar and standard English

Debra Myhill

10. Embedding a Dialogic Pedagogy in the Teaching of English

Frank Hardman

11. Teacher Research in English Classrooms: questions that are worth asking?

Caroline Daly and Lisa Taylor

Bibliography

Index