I am currently working through a weighty archive of documents and interview transcripts about the development of the Oxford Internship Scheme from 1973 to 1987. My friend and colleague Ann… Read more Teaching and Professionalism: An Essay in Ambiguity. A paper by Harry Judge from 1978 →
If you were a newly-qualified teacher of English today, would you know who James Britton was? If you had done a PGCE, it is an interesting question. As an English… Read more London Conference on the Legacy of James Britton – IOE, 12th March 2016 →
In May 2013, I travelled north to Lancaster, in the north of England, to a conference at which a senior civil servant from the National College for Teaching and Leadership… Read more The market will (not) decide: The creative destruction of England’s teacher education infrastructure →
Last week saw the annual summer angst-fest that is A-level results day in England and Wales. At a slow time for news, you can guarantee TV news crews will be… Read more Opting out: Public education, state compulsion and democratic rights →
Bloomsbury have commissioned a new series of books on teacher education to be edited by Marie Brennan, Meg Maguire, Peter Smagorinsky and myself. Entitled Re-inventing Teacher Education, the series will… Read more Bloomsbury commissions new book series: Re-inventing Teacher Education →
A huge amount has been written over the last few months about alleged religious extremism among a group of schools in Birmingham – much of it nonsense, some of it… Read more Trojan Linguistics: Underneath the headlines at Park View →
Bob Bibby, former Chair of the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) and English Advisor for the West Midlands borough of Dudley, died on June 6th. Another former… Read more Bob Bibby 1942 – 2014 →
The Routledge Companion to English Studies, edited by Brian Street and Constant Leung, has just been published. My chapter (rather worryingly Chapter 1) is ‘English as a Subject’ and (in… Read more ‘English as a Subject’ published →
