Whether or not the discipline of English Literature is ‘in crisis’ is something we consider right at the start of this book. But if not in crisis, it is certainly a discipline in the process of marked change
This book offers an account of existing research and practice, and aims to stimulate further research and informed pedagogic innovation in the field of literature and language teaching, with special but not exclusive reference to foreign language studies. Colin MacCabe’s pronouncement was no doubt somewhat premature, and more specific: I have pruned ‘English’ and ‘in English’ fro…
This book is about the workings of language and interaction in the everyday life of institutions. It arose from our long-standing conviction that, while it was all but ignored in conventional analyses of occupational worlds, professions, and organizational environments, the study of interaction had much to offer to the analysis of these domains of social life. Accordingly, in the early 1990…
This book began as an inquiry into why some schools exclude many more pupils than others. The results were unexpected. There was no support for the view that big schools had more discipline problems than small schools; that urban schools had higher exclusion rates than suburban schools; nor was there evidence that poverty and domestic disadvantage in a school’s catchment necessarily led …
The central aims of this book are to enable practitioners (students, teachers or researchers) to undertake effective action research and to offer an account of an action research project. The volume is divided into ten chapters, the first eight of which are headed by a commonly-asked question. Having examined the nature of action research and arguments for undertaking it in educational set…