ABSTRACT
One of the major implications of what we have said about writing is that it is crucial for a popular democracy to create the circumstances in which as many people as possible contribute actively and on equal terms to the creation and circulation of meanings. In this final chapter we try to suggest some ways in which these circumstances might be encouraged, looking at some of the issues concerning access to the important public spaces for communicating meanings, focusing on the media in general and on publishing. These aspects of the broader socio-political environment affect the conditions that we believe are necessary for the realisation of the pedagogical principles that we propose. We then look at the possible ways of encouraging learner writers at various stages of their learning experience in formal educational settings to see writing as less of a chore and more of an exciting possibility for them to engage in the wider ‘ideological activity’ of society, as Kress calls it (1982: 10).
