Bringing English to Order

Into the sixties - English and English society at a time of change, Peter Medway; literacy, politics and the teaching of English, Stephen Ball, Alex Kenny and David Gardner; class, language and power in Franklin's "Idea of the English School" and other early texts of vernacular advocacy - a perspective on the social origins of English, Gerald Burns; a dividing practice - "literature", English teaching and cultural politics, Bill Green; the ideology and politics of English grammar - a 1984 Newfoundland example, Laurence Walker; foreign language teaching as an instrument of policy in the cultural and societal orientation of a nation - the case of English teaching in Norway, Bjorn Brandtzaeg Gundem; the Englishness of English teaching, Robert Morgan; contested terrain - English education in South Africa 1948-1987, Hilary Janks.