English,literacy, rhetoric: changing the project? |
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| Authors: | Bill Green |
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| Institution: | Charles Sturt University, Australia |
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| Abstract: | In this paper I begin to trace two movements in the curriculum history and cultural politics of English teaching: on the one hand, a shift from ‘literature’ to ‘literacy’, as organizing principles for the field, and on the other, from ‘language’ to ‘rhetoric’. I do so within a particular understanding of history, as embracing past present and future dimensions. My aim is two‐fold: to open up questions about the subject's historical legacy, and to draw attention to some of the emerging challenges and prospects for English teaching today and tomorrow. |
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| Keywords: | Rbetoric history of English teaching critical literacy English curriculum |
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