Rethinking and Reviving Subject English : The Murder and the Murmur (Hardcover)

The Preface. Reflections on English: ‘Goin’ Back’. Nick Peim looks back Introduction. Rethinking and reviving Subject English: The Murder and the Murmur. Pete Bennett, Louise Lambert and Rob Smith Part 1 . The Murder: politics, policy and practice Chapter 1. English is Shit! A Post-Modern Murder Mystery. Kirstie Harrington Chapter 2. Where has oracy gone? The curious case of the erosion of speaking and listening in GCSE English. Nic Worgan & Georgina Garbett Chapter 3. Is the English curriculum really suitable for all? Salya Akhtar Chapter 4. Rethinking, reimagining English in the post-16 sector; COVID-19 and the future of English. Joanne Bowser-Angermann & Elizabeth Draper Chapter 5. Against the Clock: ‘Time for Literacy Hour children’: A critique of English policy in primary schools. From English to Literacy and back again to English. Louise Wheatcroft Chapter 6. "A little bit of Jekyll, a little Mr. Hyde": Secondary English teachers speak of the tensions between their perception of English teaching and the systems they are required to serve. Part 2. notes from the front: say not the struggle naught availeth Chapter 7. Zainab. Heather James Chapter 8. ‘Smallness, narrowness and servility’: Resisting English at university over 30 years. Chapter 9. Home Education and English: The Ticking Time Bomb of Future Need. Mel Carter Chapter 10. Making creative spaces - constraints and aspirations: The English curriculum From Key Stage One to Key Stage Three. Victoria Wright, Steph Perks and Jennifer Wells Chapter 11. Old Books for Hungry Children: Negotiating definitions of cultural capital to support ‘disadvantaged’ children in primary school reading. Shaun Allen-Dooley Chapter 12. In your own Write: for English wherever I may find her, de-territorialising writing. Part 3 . The Murmur: UNTHINKING & rethinkING English Chapter 13. The tentative: a modest proposal for a great leap forward. Shaun Passey Chapter 14. Possibilities for teaching English literature in posthuman times. Lou Lambert Chapter 15. Dissenting Voices: finding Agency, Authenticity and Autonomy in the ‘luxuriant now’. Chris Waugh Chapter 16. English and the Lefebvrian ‘moment’. Rob Smith Chapter 17. Interrogating the listening practices of Mr Oxford Don: teacher education, culturally sustaining pedagogies and raciolinguistic ideologies. Ian Cushing Afterword: Resources of Hope. Pete Bennett, Louise Lambert and Rob Smith