1st Edition
Critical Theory and The English Teacher Transforming the Subject
By Nick Peim
Copyright 1993
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this radical exploration, Nick Peim, himself a practising English teacher, shows how teachers can use critical theory to bring students' own experience back into the subject. The author explains how the insights of discourse theory, psychoanalysis, semiotics and deconstruction can be used on the material of modern culture as well as on and in oral work. The book is written in a style which even... Read more
Introduction 1 The habits of English 2 Theory and the politics of English 3 On the subject of reading 4 Grammatology for beginners 5 Oral theory 6 Literature, language, literacy and values 7 Aspects of English 8 New bearings
Biography
Nick Peim is Head of English at Beauchamp College, Leicester.
`A powerfully sceptical survey of English teaching which forces us to question some of our most fundamental assumptions.' - Terry Eagleton, Oxford University
