The Art of Teaching Secondary English: Innovative and Creative Approaches: The Complete Guide to Becoming an English Teacher

According to the authors, The Art of Teaching Secondary English is written "as a counter to recurring reductive and mechanistic tendencies in school-based English". At this point-- two sentences into the book-- we part company. They quote Blake, Wordsworth and Heaney to reaffirm the Romant...

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Published in:The Times educational supplement 2004 (4602), p.24
Format: Review
Language:English
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Summary:According to the authors, The Art of Teaching Secondary English is written "as a counter to recurring reductive and mechanistic tendencies in school-based English". At this point-- two sentences into the book-- we part company. They quote Blake, Wordsworth and Heaney to reaffirm the Romantic traditions of the subject, believing that English is inevitably a "challenge to the status quo", and writing "a means of control inflicted on a more or less unwilling student population"
ISSN:0040-7887