ABSTRACT
I approach this Dartmouth retrospective as a Canadian school teacher and teacher educator who came of age during the 1960s and began teaching school in 1972. It would be another decade before I learned about the Anglo-American Seminar on the Teaching of English held at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1966. By that point, it seems almost trite to say, Dartmouth looked like the English teacher’s San Francisco Summer of Love, which began the following year with the legendary Monterey Pop Festival. You didn’t have to be there, was the general feeling, with ‘flowers in your hair’, because ‘all across the nation. . . there’s a whole generation / with a new explanation’, as Scott Mackenzie sang at Monterey in the song ‘San Francisco’.
