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The seminal Dartmouth Conference (1966) remains a remarkably influential moment in the history of English teaching. Bringing together leading voices in contemporary English education, this book celebrates the Conference and its legacy, drawing attention to what it has achieved, and the questions it has raised.
Encompassing a multitude of reflections on the Dartmouth Conference, The Future of English Teaching Worldwide provides fresh and revisionist readings of the meeting and its leading figures. Chapters showcase innovative and exciting new insights for English scholars, and address both theoretical and practical elements of teaching English in a variety of settings and countries. Covering topics including the place of new media in English curricula, the role of the canon, poetry and grammar, the text is divided into three accessible parts:
Historical perspectives
Dartmouth today: why it still matters
Reflections: but for the future.
This powerful collection will be of value to researchers, postgraduate students, literature scholars, practitioners, teacher educators, trainee and in-service teachers, as well as other parties involved in the teaching and study of English.
List of contents
Preface Introduction Section 1: Historical perspectives 1. London English, the Dartmouth Seminar and Growth through English 2. Growth through English and The Uses of English: Literature, knowledge and experience 3. Re-reading Dartmouth: An American Perspective on the Pasts and Presents of English Teaching 4. The impact of the Blue Books prior to Dartmouth 5. Dartmouth and Personal Gowth in Australia: the New South Wales and Western Australian Curricula of The 1970s 6. The Manifold Ways in which Language Works: The Generation After Dartmouth 7. The Many Voices of Dartmouth Section 2: Dartmouth today: why it still matters 8. From Personal Growth [1966] to Personal Growth and Social Agency [2016] – proposing an invigorated model for the 21st Century 9. Dartmouth’s Growth Model Reconceived from a Social Perspective 10. The status and relevance of the Growth model for a new generation of English teachers in New South Wales, Australia 11. Growing the nation: The influence of Dartmouth on the teaching of literature in subject English in Australia 12. Language and Experience: (Rereading Growth Through English) Section 3: Reflections: but for the future 13. W(h)ither Media in English? 14. Back to the future: the restoration of canon and the backlash against multiculturalism in secondary English curricula 15. Finding and Keeping Poetry 16. Reading for Pleasure in English Class: Developing Reading Dispositions and Identities in a Digital Society 17. Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and the Problem of Poverty: From Cultural Identity to Political Subjectivity 18. The Dartmouth Conference Revisited: Changing views of grammar - or not? 19. "What is English?": New Directions for the Discipline in a Transnational World
About the author
Professor Andrew Goodwyn is President of IFTE, Head of Education at The University of Bedfordshire, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading, UK.
Associate Professor Cal Durrant is Associate Professor (Adjunct) in the School of Education at Murdoch University, Australia.
Professor Wayne Sawyer is Director of Research in the School of Education, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Dr Lisa Scherff is a Faculty member at South Fort Myers High School, USA.
Professor Don Zancanella is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico, where he has taught since 1988.
Summary
Bringing together leading voices in contemporary English education, this book celebrates the seminal Dartmouth Conference (1966) and its legacy, drawing attention to what it has achieved, and the questions it has raised. Chapters showcase innovative and exciting new insights, addressing both theoretical and practical elements of teaching English.
