Andrew Goodwyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 5145186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Goodwyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodwyn |
| SIGNATURE | GOODWYN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bedfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7522-1436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Future memories
This paper outlines the history of The International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education [IAIMTE] and the International Association for Research in L1 Education [ARLE]. Delegates at a 1993 conference at UEA recognised how important research was to generate evidence about the teaching and learning of all first languages, and to disseminate knowledge and good practice. Over the first decade of the 21st century, IAIMTE ran sev…
Only disconnect
This article reviews Margaret Meek Spencer’s body of work in relation to the various policies that she critiqued from the Bullock Report in 1974 to the National Literacy Strategy in 2004. She analysed increasingly conservative moves to promote a dominant, elitist version of school literacy. A Critical Realist perspective aligns with Margaret Meek Spencer’s view of a highly structuring political movement to maintain a model of merely functional li…
Newbolt to Now
2021 marks the 100th anniversary of The Newbolt Report, the first official report about English, in spirit a liberal document, arguing for an emancipatory English. Since 1870 The School Subject of English [SSE] has experienced several historical phases. One phase [1980-92] is presented as a period of ‘harmonious practice’, arguing that it offers a positive view of a future in which SSE and its teachers are at one. SSE is a democratic and emancipa…
The Future of English Teaching Worldwide
Future of English Teaching Worldwide
From Personal Growth (1966) to Personal Growth and Social Agency (2016) – proposing an invigorated model for the 21st century
The Personal Growth (PG) model, as outlined by John Dixon in 1967 and developed from his contribution to the Dartmouth Seminar, is unquestionably still recognisable to English teachers, remaining aligned to their philosophy of teaching English. This chapter traces a key element in the history of PG and explores present continuities traceable to Dartmouth in 1966, and defines an invigorated PG model to embrace twenty-first-century life and to take…
Machines to Think With? E-books, Kindles and English Teachers, the Much Prophesied Death of the Book Revisited
English teachers have a particular professional interest in developing their students as readers and this includes a very strong emphasis on literature. They are personal and professional enthusiasts for books and in the past have shown anxieties about threats to the book from computers and portable devices. The advent of e-readers, like the Kindle, brings a new dynamic to the field of reading with many teachers becoming enthusiastic users of suc…
I.A. Richards and the Paradox of Practical Criticism
Students of English
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Students of English
I.A. Richards and the Paradox of Practical Criticism
Machines to Think With? E-books, Kindles and English Teachers, the Much Prophesied Death of the Book Revisited
English teachers have a particular professional interest in developing their students as readers and this includes a very strong emphasis on literature. They are personal and professional enthusiasts for books and in the past have shown anxieties about threats to the book from computers and portable devices. The advent of e-readers, like the Kindle, brings a new dynamic to the field of reading with many teachers becoming enthusiastic users of suc…
The Future of English Teaching Worldwide
Future of English Teaching Worldwide
From Personal Growth (1966) to Personal Growth and Social Agency (2016) – proposing an invigorated model for the 21st century
The Personal Growth (PG) model, as outlined by John Dixon in 1967 and developed from his contribution to the Dartmouth Seminar, is unquestionably still recognisable to English teachers, remaining aligned to their philosophy of teaching English. This chapter traces a key element in the history of PG and explores present continuities traceable to Dartmouth in 1966, and defines an invigorated PG model to embrace twenty-first-century life and to take…
Newbolt to Now
2021 marks the 100th anniversary of The Newbolt Report, the first official report about English, in spirit a liberal document, arguing for an emancipatory English. Since 1870 The School Subject of English [SSE] has experienced several historical phases. One phase [1980-92] is presented as a period of ‘harmonious practice’, arguing that it offers a positive view of a future in which SSE and its teachers are at one. SSE is a democratic and emancipa…
Only disconnect
This article reviews Margaret Meek Spencer’s body of work in relation to the various policies that she critiqued from the Bullock Report in 1974 to the National Literacy Strategy in 2004. She analysed increasingly conservative moves to promote a dominant, elitist version of school literacy. A Critical Realist perspective aligns with Margaret Meek Spencer’s view of a highly structuring political movement to maintain a model of merely functional li…
Future memories
This paper outlines the history of The International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education [IAIMTE] and the International Association for Research in L1 Education [ARLE]. Delegates at a 1993 conference at UEA recognised how important research was to generate evidence about the teaching and learning of all first languages, and to disseminate knowledge and good practice. Over the first decade of the 21st century, IAIMTE ran sev…
Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)