Peter Medway
Biographic Data
| ID | 5240067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Medway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Medway |
| SIGNATURE | MEDWAY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | b King's College London , UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Autonomy and the Working-class Freelance
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English Teachers in a Postwar Democracy
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English and Enlightenment
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In his own words
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The Groves of Academe and the ’edgerows of Experience
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Literacy and the idea of English
The possibility is considered that the intuitive judgments of experienced English teachers about what is and is not appropriate ‘English’ content embody knowledge, and indeed potential theory, that are worth studying and making explicit as a way of moving towards an adequate theory for English. As an example, a text by Isaiah Berlin is examined, which both enacts a quality important to English and makes a relevant statement. Before that, a curric…
Representation and Making
Bringing English to Order
Finding a Language
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Finding a Language
Bringing English to Order
Representation and Making
Literacy and the idea of English
The possibility is considered that the intuitive judgments of experienced English teachers about what is and is not appropriate ‘English’ content embody knowledge, and indeed potential theory, that are worth studying and making explicit as a way of moving towards an adequate theory for English. As an example, a text by Isaiah Berlin is examined, which both enacts a quality important to English and makes a relevant statement. Before that, a curric…
The Groves of Academe and the ’edgerows of Experience
In August 1945 Ernest Bevin was preparing his first Commons speech as Foreign Secretary of the new Labour government. In the account of his private secretary (i.e. a senior civil servant), the proc
In his own words
Harold Rosen occupied a unique position among socialist/progressive English teachers in the post‐war period. He was one of the chief architects of what is known as the ‘new English’. We interviewed
English and Enlightenment
English is best advanced by being relocated within the central aims of education, which in turn need to be drawn from Enlightenment values. Central among the latter is knowledge. The article argues that the least obviously ‘factual’ side of English – novels and poetry – contributes to knowledge in direct and indirect ways. These include conveying sorts of knowledge that can’t be expressed propositionally, giving a sense of other subjectivities, ‘…
English Teachers in a Postwar Democracy
Conflicting conservative and radical impulses in English society after WWII were played out in microcosm in education. They particularly shaped English teaching, examined in three post-war London scho
Autonomy and the Working-class Freelance
If students are to write in ways that will help them learn they need to have a say over what to write and when. If the most useful writing arises out of a sense of having something to communicate
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