Margaret Mathieson

The Preachers of Culture (1975)

A Study of English and its Teachers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1975, Margaret Mathieson has drawn on her experience both in schools and in the training of English teachers to relate the discussions and writings of the previous two centuries to the debate, probably livelier than ever before, among English practitioners about the role of their subject.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780815355168
• ISBN-10: 0815355165
• Artikelnr.: 50750092

Autorenporträt

Margaret Mathieson

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: From the Classics to English Literature: The First Hopes. 1. The
Curriculum Debate. 2. Essays on a Liberal Education. 3. Matthew Arnold. 4.
Literature and the Threats from Commerce. 5. Progressive Theories and
Creativity. 6. The Newbolt Report and English for the English. Part II:
Changing Definitions of English since the First World War. 7.
Anti-Industrialism: The Claims for Literature and Creativity. 8.
Progressive Theories since the 1920s. 9. F. R. Leavis and Cambridge
English. 10. Soda-Linguistics: English and Social Justice. 11. Changing
Views of the 'Good' English Teacher. Part III: The Ideology and the
Teachers. 12. Social and Academic Background of Teachers. 13. The English
Teacher's Role: Strain and Conflict. 14. Interest and Enjoyment: Teachers
and Pupils