1st Edition

Margaret Meek Spencer English Literature, Literacy and the Language Arts

By Colin Mills Copyright 2027
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

Part of the ground-breaking series Key Thinkers in English and the Language Arts, this seminal text focuses on the work of Margaret Meek Spencer who left a remarkably prolific range of publications over six decades. With huge influence on literacy teaching both nationally and internationally, this text provides a balanced, wide-ranging and critical evaluation of her contributions to principles... Read more

Chapter 1   Introduction and overview

Chapter 2   On Literature

Chapter 3   On Literacy

Chapter 4   On Teachers – ‘Where the evidence is’

Chapter 5   On Pedagogy -  or ‘Handing down the magic’

Chapter 6   On Policy - or ‘Being constructively critical’

Chapter 7   On Margaret Meek Spencer: Some contemporary challenges in EELA.    

                   How might her contribution assist us?

Biography

Colin Mills is a recently retired Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Manchester Institute of Education, having worked as a teacher in primary and secondary schools and as a Lecturer at the Universities of Worcester, Exeter and Central England in Birmingham, as well as publishing widely on literacy and, more recently, on privatisations in English Education.