Secondary English for Generation Alpha

Humane Pedagogy for Local, National and International Contexts
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-76600-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)

Secondary English for Generation Alpha seeks to promote a humane, responsive and creative pedagogy for English that will develop and enrich understanding and enjoyment of language in all its forms (speaking, listening, reading and writing) and help students develop into successful members of their home and wider communities.

Generation Alpha (children born between 2010 and 2025) are growing up amid unprecedented challenges – local, national and global – that threaten social justice. The authors of this book see subject English as one means of supporting Generation Alpha to meet these challenges and provide them with the necessary skills and knowledge to fit them for a changing world. Responding to tendencies to standardise and centralise curriculum, pedagogy and teacher education, the book explores the ways in which subject English can draw on local contexts and expertise in schools, universities and communities to address local needs and interests, demonstrating how what we learn locally can be relevant beyond.

The chapters in this volume represent work being done, individually and collectively, in settings across England, by teacher educators in universities and other centres, alongside their partnership schools. By describing their own practice in English classrooms, the authors hope to empower others – in England, but also beyond – simultaneously producing both a broad and an in-depth exploration of the subject. Secondary English for Generation Alpha emerges from the world of initial teacher education, yet takes ideas from current research and makes them relevant to teachers and those interested in English teaching in schools in any context.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Lorna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Kunst, Musik, Theater (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Weiterführende Schulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Epigraph - In all its forms

Introduction

Section 1: Speaking and Listening

1: Dialogue in the English classroom

2: Linguistic Justice efforts in England’s schools

Section 2: Interpreting Literature

3: How do students read and interpret whole texts and become engaged readers?

4: Making meaning together: how can literary theory develop critical reading skills in English?

5: Drama-based pedagogy and reading in the secondary English classroom

6: Poetry in the Moment

Section 3: Exploring Non-Fiction

7: Literary non-fiction in a post-truth era curriculum

8: From the perspective of trees: developing students eco and socio-critical literacies with non-fiction texts

Section 4: Fostering Writing

9: Hands on: Using a ‘PlayBox’ to support teachers develop racial literacy through workshops and personal writing

10: Four ways personal language autobiographies can transform the English teaching of Generation Alpha

11: ‘Made in Stoke-on-Trent’. From Potters to ‘Best China’ Poets: Creating a collaborative poetry anthology

12. Metalinguistic knowledge and writing development.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Lorna Smith is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Bristol.