ABSTRACT
The editors of this series and this book debated possible titles for it for some time. The title Debates in English Teaching for the book (and Debates in Subject Teaching for the series) was settled on because of the editors’ shared belief that many issues in subject teaching are contested, that rigorous debate is needed to take the discussion of them forward and that, in the context of the increasing recognition by the global education community, and not least by some influential stakeholders in England, that teachers’ work should be supported by high-level academic engagement: teachers undertaking Initial Teacher Education and practising qualified teachers should be supported in taking part in those debates.
