ABSTRACT
The impact and content of English as a subject on the curriculum is once more the subject of lively debate. Questions of English sets out to map the development of English as a subject and how it has come to encompass the diversity of ideas that currently characterise it.
Drawing on a combination of historical analysis and recent research findings Robin Peel, Annette Patterson and Jeanne Gerlach bring together and compare important new insights on curriculum development and teaching practice from England, Australia and the United States. They also discuss the development of teacher training, highlighting the variety of ways in which teachers build their own beliefs and knowledge about English.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I England: Questions of History, Theory and Curriculum
part |2 pages
Part II Australia: Questions of Pedagogy
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Part III United States: Questions of Practice and Individual Expression
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Part IV Shared Questions, Different Aanswers: Different Questions, Shared Answers