The Future of English Teaching Worldwide: Celebrating 50 Years From the Dartmouth Conference [Paperback]

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.

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 ló'