A curriculum in its place: English teaching in one school. 1946 - 1963

Contrary to what has usually been asserted, the 'New English' that became a near-orthodoxy in the later 1960s and '70s had its essential origins in the apparently less promising setting of the later 1950s. Current research into English teaching in three postwar London secondary school...

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Published in:History of education (Tavistock) 2010-11, Vol.39 (6), p.749-765
Main Authors: Medway, Peter, Kingwell, Patrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20. Jahrhundert
Bildungsgeschichte
curriculum
Curriculumreform
Educational History
England (London)
Englischunterricht
English
English (Second Language)
English Curriculum
English Instruction
English teachers
environment
Geschichte (Histor)
London
Muttersprachlicher Unterricht
Postwar reconstruction
Schools
Schule
Schulgeschichte
Schulversuch
Secondary schools
Social classes
Teacher Attitudes
Teaching
teaching of English
Unterrichtsreform
Urban Environment
Working Class
Writing (Composition)
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Summary:Contrary to what has usually been asserted, the 'New English' that became a near-orthodoxy in the later 1960s and '70s had its essential origins in the apparently less promising setting of the later 1950s. Current research into English teaching in three postwar London secondary schools is revealing that in at least one working-class school in Southwark the pupils' experience of their urban environment came in a quite new way to constitute the matter for talking and writing in English lessons. The vigorous reconstruction of English that took place in Walworth School was one fruit of the London County Council's idealistic creation in 1946 of five 'experimental comprehensive schools'. The article argues for the historic significance of the local and environmental focus of English at Walworth between 1956 and 1963.
ISSN:0046-760X
1464-5130
DOI:10.1080/0046760X.2010.514293