ABSTRACT
This book is about the fundamental importance of English and its teachers. English remains the subject where young people can consider and reflect upon their emergent identities in the many cross cultural and ideological currents in which they try to swim and survive. In 1966 an extraordinary and unique event took place when a group of educators, all from an ‘English’ background, met for a month in Dartmouth College, USA, to consider what was meant by ‘English’ and what was its purpose and place in the curriculum; where ‘English’ is defined as a subject taught in schools by a professional group called English teachers; this is not to diminish the importance of terms such as ‘The Language Arts’, but Dartmouth was about something called ‘English’ at the time.
