The Aims of English Teaching
A View from History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20502234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Gibbons (0000-0003-1587-6809, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 138-147 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Changing English (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1358-684X • E-ISSN: 1469-3585 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1358684x.2013.788293 |
| OpenAlex | W2060020680 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
Once again, the National Curriculum orders for English are being rewritten. The writers of the new curriculum have looked to the education systems of ‘high-performing jurisdictions’ for inspiration. The result is a curriculum draft that offers a limited view of the subject and one which apparently fails to prioritise the needs of the learner. The model of English developed in the postwar years by those working within the London Association for the Teaching of English (LATE) offers a very different view of the subject. The Aims of English Teaching is an early document articulating LATE’s vision of the subject; this article offers a reading of this document and suggests that there may be much in this history to draw on as teachers are apparently offered more freedom to design their own programmes of study
Art · Curriculum · History of English · Library science · Literature · Mathematics education · National curriculum · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Law · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2017 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |