1st Edition

The Changing Role of Media in the English Curriculum Returning to Nowhere

By Steve Connolly Copyright 2022
140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

140 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses and explains the role that the study of media texts has played in English curricula across the last 30 years, exploring the implications of these changes for teachers and students. Presenting a documentary analysis of the key evidence surrounding the history of media texts within English, the book focuses on how media has been characterized in the subject of English in... Read more

Introduction – Returning to Nowhere

Chapter 1 - Now Here is Nowhere: The UK English Curriculum 2010-2021

Chapter 2 - How we got there: Media, Film and English Prior to 1988

Chapter 3 - Media in the English National Curriculum for English: 1988-90

Chapter 4 – Developing Roles: Media Texts in English 1990 -2010

Chapter 5 – Media Texts in Other National Curricula

Chapter 6 - Ideologies, Sociologies and Psychologies: Ventriloquizing the Past

Chapter 7 – Looking Forward; Texts, Literacy and Technology

References

Biography

Steve Connolly is Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education at the University of Bedfordshire, UK.