Teaching English and Composition

Books, articles and links on teaching English, composition, writing and rhetoric

English Pear 'Jargonelle'
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Dixon, J. (1967). Growth Through English. NATE/Oxford University Press.

Dixon, J. (1991). A Schooling in 'English': Critical Episodes in the Struggle to Shape Literary and Cultural Studies. Open University Press.

Goodson, I. and Medway, P. eds. (1990). Bringing English to Order: the History and Politics of a School Subject. Falmer Press.

Graff, G. (1987). Professing Literature. University of Chicago Press.

Heilker, P. (1996). The Essay: Theory and Pedagogy for an Active Form. NCTE.

Kress, G. (1995). Writing the Future. English and the Making of a Culture of Innovation. NATE.

Lu, Min-Zhan. (2004). 'An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism.' College Composition and Communication 56.1 (2004): 16–50.

Lunsford, A. and Ede, L. (1990). Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Lunsford, A. and Ede, L. (1994). 'Collaborative Authorhship and the Teaching of Writing' in Woodmansee, M. and Jaszi, P. The Construction of Authorship. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

Marshall, B. (2000). 'A Rough Guide to English Teachers'. English in Education, 34,1: 24-41.

Miller, S. (1989). Rescuing the Subject: a Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer. Southern Illinois University Press.

Morgan, W. (1997). Critical Literacy in the Classroom: the Art of the Possible. London and New York: Routledge.

Murphy, J. ed. (2001). A Short History of Writing Instruction From Ancient Greece to Modern America. Hermagoras Press.

Nystrand, M., Greene, S., & Wiemelt, J. (1993). 'Where did composition studies come from? An intellectual history'. Written Communication 10: 267-333.

Oliver, R. (2007). 'Essayist Literacy Plus: an Activity-based Analysis of Texts in Curriculum Change'. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Conference on College Communication and Composition, New York. For a summary of this presentation see here.

Petraglia, J. (1995). Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Pope, R. (1995). Textual Intervention: Critical and Creative Strategies for Literary Studies. London and New York: Routledge.

Scholes, R. (1998). The Rise and Fall of English. Yale University Press.

Willinsky, J. (1991). The Triumph of Literature, the Fate of Literacy: English in the Secondary School Curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press.

Assessment

White, E., Lutz, W. and Kamusukiri, S. eds. (1996). Assessment of Writing: Politics, Policies, Practices. New York: MLA.

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Pedagogy & Curriculum

Applebee, A. N. (1996). Curriculum as conversation : transforming traditions of teaching and learning. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.

Bernstein, B. (1996). Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity. Taylor and Francis.

Bruner, J. (1986). Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Harvard University Press.

Bruner, J. (1996). The Culture of Education. Harvard University Press.

Christie, F. ed. (1999). Pedagogy and the Shaping of Consciousness. Continuum.
Includes Bernstein, 'Official Knowledge and Pedagogic Identities'.

Delpit, L. (1988). 'The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children'. Harvard Educational Review, 53,3: 280-298.

Elsworth, E. (1989). 'Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy'. Harvard Educational Review, 59,3: 297-324.

Gilbert, P. (1988). Writing, Schooling and Deconstruction: From Voice to Text in the Classroom. London: Routledge.

Green, A. (1997). Education, Globalization and the Nation State. Macmillan.

Janks, H. (2000). 'Domination, access, diversity and design: a synthesis for critical literacy education'. Educational Review, 52: 175-186.

Kress, G. (2000). 'A Curriculum for the Future'. Cambridge Journal of Education, 30,1: 133-145.
Luke, A. (1988). Literacy, Textbooks, and Ideology. Falmer Press.

Learning Theory

Heath, S.B. (1996). 'Good Science or Good Art? Or both?' in Baker, D., Clay, J. and Fox C. eds. Alternative Ways of Knowing: Literacies, Numeracies, Sciences. Falmer Press.

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Literary Study

Corcoran, B., Hayhoe, M. and Pradl, G. eds. (1994). Knowledge in the Making: Challenging the Text in the Classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann.

Hines, M.B. and Appleman, D. (2000). 'Multiple Ways of Knowing in Literature Classrooms'. English Education, 32:141-168.

Langer, J. ed. (1992). Literature Instruction: a Focus on Student Response. Urbana, Ill: NCTE.

Langer, J. (1995). Envisioning Literature: Literary Understanding and Literary Instruction. New York: Teachers College Press.

Morgan, W. (1994). 'Works of Literature or the Play of Texts? Unconventional Writing in the Secondary Classroom'. In Corcoran, B. et al.

Pradl, G. (1996). Literature for Democracy: Reading as a Social Act. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.

Probst, R. (1992). 'Five Kinds of Literary Knowing' in Langer, J ed.

Rosenblatt, L. (1938/1995). Literature as Exploration. New York: MLA.

Rosenblatt, L. (1978). The Reader, the Text, the Poem: the Transactional Theory of the Literary Work. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Smagorinsky, P., & Coppock, J. (1994). 'Cultural tools and the classroom context: An exploration of an artistic response to literature'. Written Communication, 11: 283-310.

Smagorinsky, P., & Coppock, J. (1995). 'The reader, the text, the context: An exploration of a choreographed response to literature'. Journal of Reading Behavior, 27, 271-98.

Sumara, D.J. (1996). Private Readings in Public: Schooling the Literary Imagination. New York: Peter Lang.

Woods, C. (2001). 'Bridging the creative and the critical'. L1 - Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 1: 55-72. Online at IAIMTE site.

Yancey, K. (2004). Teaching Literature as Reflective Practice. Urbana, Il: NCTE.

US National Council for the Teaching of English
Position Statement on Literature in the Curriculum (2006)


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Professional and Research Associations

UK Higher Education Academy English Subject Centre
http://www.english.ltsn.ac.uk/index.php
NCTE http://www.ncte.org
CCCC http://www.ncte.org/cccc/
NATE http://www.nate.org.uk/index.php
IFTE http://www.ifte.net/
UKLA http://www.ukla.org/site/about/index.php
IAIMTE http://www.ilo.uva.nl/development/iaimte/
IRA http://www.reading.org/
EARLI http://www.earli.org/