Rethinking English in schools : towards a new and constructive stage / edited by Viv Ellis, Carol Fox, and Brian Street.

Contributor Ellis, Viv, 1965-

Imprint:New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2008.

Descriptionxiii, 249 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Why English? : rethinking the school subject / Viv Ellis, Carol Fox, and Brian Street -- How history and politics have shaped English teaching. The picture of development in Vygotskyan theory : renewing the intellectual project of English / Tony Turgess ; Deep winters, invincible summers : teaching English for existential purposes / Bob Fecho, with Kristi Amatucci and Sarah Skinner ; English in the history of imperialism : teaching the empire how to read / Patrick Walsh ; The personal, the community and the society : a response to Section 1 -- Culture as a verb : teaching literatures. How critical is the aesthetic? : the role of literature in English / Ray Misson and Wendy Morgan ; History, war and politics : taking 'comix' seriously / Carol Fox ; 'The uncreating word' : some ways not to teach English / Joy Alexander ; Refreshing the aesthetic : a response to Section 2 / Sue Dymoke -- Language(s), multiple literacies and the question of 'English'. The new literacy studies and multimodality : implications for the subject and the language 'English' / Brian Street ; Resisting monolingualism in 'English' : reading and writing the politics of language / Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu ; English as a multilingual subject : theorstical and research perspectives / Janina Brutt-Griffler and James Collins ; The multiple languages and literacies of English : a response to Section 3 / Suzanne M. Miller -- More than 'soldiering on' : realizing the potential of teacher education to rethink English in schools / Viv Ellis.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-240) and index.

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