ABSTRACT
This book offers a pivotal re-evaluation of English teaching one century on from The Newbolt Report of 1921, responding to this seminal work and exploring its impact on issues and contemporary aims of English teaching today.
Bringing together a range of experts in English higher education, the book provides a twenty-first century inflection on the enduring issues highlighted by Newbolt’s original report. It examines topics including the demands of assessment, the narrowing of the literary curriculum, the impact of education reform, targets related to social mobility, class and widening participation, as well as broader questions about the function of literature and the arts in education. Chapters also consider issues surrounding the promotion of community cohesion, diversity and how technological advances might reshape literary education.
This unique re-evaluation of the achievements and findings of the Newbolt Commission will be essential reading for those researching English education and the history of education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Contexts for Newbolt
part II|76 pages
Newbolt, language and literature
chapter 8|13 pages
‘Evil habits of speech’ and ‘correct grammar’
chapter 12|15 pages
Transporting English(ness)
part III|76 pages
Newbolt and education