Literacy and Growth: A Genealogy of English Teaching [Paperback]

1. Growth

2. The Origins of Modern English Education

3. Culture of the Feelings?? Literacy And Education in the Industrial Revolution

4. Romantic Developmentalism: The Colonial Genealogy of The Newbolt Report

5. The Genealogy and Legacy Of Cambridge English

6. Ancestral Voices: The Dartmouth Debates

7. The Genealogy of the London School

8. Literacy, Politics and Culture in the Late 20th Century

9. What Every English Student Should Know? The Genealogy of Cultural Literacy

10. Literacy and Growth  Into the Future

Literacy and Growth is a unique genealogical study of English teaching in the UK and abroad since the 18^th century. Focusing specifically on the concepts of literacy and growth, this book explores key moments in the development of ideas about English teaching.?

This really is a genealogical exploration of English education  this is the history of every English teacher and where we came from. Tracing the patterns and evolutions of thought about literacy and literature education, it is saturated with knowledge.

?Victoria Elliott,?Associate Professor of English and Literacy Education,?University of Oxford, UK

A fascinating, timely and important (English) curriculum story, well told, this innovative book about English teaching today ranges from the Scottish Enlightenment to Dartmouth and beyond. With perhaps its most striking feature being its history of ideas approach and tracing various twists and turns in the subject, the authors are to be congratulated on creatively and comprehensively opening up the view, in a way that enriches scholarship and pedagogy alike.?Required readilóº