The future of English teaching worldwide : celebrating 50 years from the Dartmouth Conference / edited by Andrew Goodwyn, Cal Durrant, Wayne Sawyer, Lisa Scherff, and Don Zancanella.

Includes bibliographical references.

London English, the Darmouth Seminar and growth through English / Simon Gibbs -- Growth through English and the uses of English: literature, knowledge and experience / Wayne Sawyer -- Re-reading Darmouth: an American perspective on the pasts and presents of English teaching / Jory Brass -- The impact of the blue books prior to Darmouth / Lorna Smith -- Dartmouth and personal growth in Australia: the New South Wales and Western Australian curricula of the 1970s / Wayne Sawyer and Cal Durrant -- The manifold ways in which language works: the generation after Darmouth / John Willinksy -- The many voices of Darmouth / John Hodgson and Ann Harris -- From personal growth (1966) to personal growth and social agency (2016): proposing an invigorated model for the 21st century / Andy Goodwyn -- Dartmouth's growth model reconceived from a social perspective / Peter Smagorinsky -- The status and relevance of the growth model for a new generation of English teachers in New South Wales, Australia / Jacqueline Manuel and Don Carter -- Growing the nation: the influence of Darmouth on the teaching of literature in subject English in Australia / Larissa McLean Davies, Lucy Buzacott and Susan K. Martin -- Language and experience: (rereading growth through English) / Brenton Doecke and John Yandell -- W(h)ither media in English? / Steve Connolly -- Back to the future: the restoration of canon and the backlash against multiculturalism in secondary English curricula / Lesley Nelson-Addy, Nicole Dingwall, Victoria Elliott & Ian Thompson -- Finding and keeping poetry / Sue Dymoke -- Reading for pleasure in English class: developing reading dispositions and identities in a digital society / Joanne O'Mara and Catherine Beavis -- Culturally sustaining pedagogy and the problem of poverty: from cultural identity to political subjectivity / Todd DeStigter -- The Darmouth Conference revisited: changing views of grammar or not? / Annabel Watson and Debra Myhill -- "What is English?": new directions for the discipline in a transnational world / Allison Skerrett and Saba Vlach.

"The seminal Dartmouth Conference (1966) remains a remarkably influential moment in the history of English teaching. Bringing together leading voices in contemporary English education, this book celebrates the Conference and its legacy, drawing attention to what it has achieved, and the questions it has raised. Encompassing a multitude of reflections on the Dartmouth Conference, The Future of English Teaching Worldwide provides fresh and revisionist readings of the meeting and its leading figures. Chapters showcase innovative and exciting new insights for English scholars and address both theoretical and practical elements of teaching English in a variety of settings and countries. Covering topics including the place of new media in English curricula, the role of the canon, poetry and grammar, the text is divided into three accessible sections: - Historical Perspectives - Dartmouth today: why it still matters - Reflections: but for the future This powerful collection will be of value to researchers, postgraduate students, literature scholars, practitioners, teacher educators, trainee and in-service teachers, as well as other parties involved in the teaching and study of English"-- Provided by publisher.