The Future of English Teaching Worldwide

Preface Introduction Section 1: Historical perspectives 1. London English, the Dartmouth Seminar and Growth through English 2. Growth through English and The Uses of English: Literature, knowledge and experience 3. Re-reading Dartmouth: An American Perspective on the Pasts and Presents of English Teaching 4. The impact of the Blue Books prior to Dartmouth 5. Dartmouth and Personal Gowth in Australia: the New South Wales and Western Australian Curricula of The 1970s 6. The Manifold Ways in which Language Works: The Generation After Dartmouth 7. The Many Voices of Dartmouth Section 2: Dartmouth today: why it still matters 8. From Personal Growth [1966] to Personal Growth and Social Agency [2016] - proposing an invigorated model for the 21st Century 9. Dartmouth's Growth Model Reconceived from a Social Perspective 10. The status and relevance of the Growth model for a new generation of English teachers in New South Wales, Australia 11. Growing the nation: The influence of Dartmouth on the teaching of literature in subject English in Australia 12. Language and Experience: (Rereading Growth Through English) Section 3: Reflections: but for the future 13. W(h)ither Media in English? 14. Back to the future: the restoration of canon and the backlash against multiculturalism in secondary English curricula 15. Finding and Keeping Poetry 16. Reading for Pleasure in English Class: Developing Reading Dispositions and Identities in a Digital Society 17. Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and the Problem of Poverty: From Cultural Identity to Political Subjectivity 18. The Dartmouth Conference Revisited: Changing views of grammar - or not? 19. "What is English?": New Directions for the Discipline in a Transnational World