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Product Description: Knowledge in the Making provides a variety of ideas on how teachers of literature at all levels can bring readers and texts closer together in their classrooms. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written and illustrated by Indians, this anthology from the new Figures in a Landscape series presents an image of another English-speaking region of the world. Like the other volumes in the series, it reflects universal themes, but it also portrays a particular sensibility and signposts a particular history by exploring: colonialism and its aftermath; pre- and post-Independence and Partition; regional identities; the rapid spread of industrialisation; the challenging of traditions and values, particularly by women...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection brings together views about the nature of "English" and its users. Within the United Kingdom - and in some other countries - there is a feeling of unease that language and literacy are in decline and that their central role in developing a sense of national unity and heritage is weakening...read more

Product Description: This collection addresses three key themes of rising significance in the world of English teaching. The first is the debate over the increasing intervention by the state and mercantilist ethics in education; the second is the movement away from literature to transactional uses of language as the main focus of the English curriculum, and the third is the increasingly dominant theme of assessment...read more

Product Description: In recent years what is understood by the word "reading" has become increasingly complex. We now know far more about what is involved when someone reads. A reader is not at the mercy of a text, passively absorbing its surface and hidden values and messages, but is busily making significance through an active engagement with what is being read...read more

Product Description: Aiming to provide teachers with a wide range of approaches to stimulate interactive work, this guide to teaching poetry in the secondary school uses approaches imported from North America and Australia as well as those used in the UK.

Product Description: Aiming to provide teachers with a wide range of approaches to stimulate interactive work, this guide to teaching poetry in the secondary school uses approaches imported from North America and Australia as well as those used in the UK.