Ian Reid on Shifting Frames in the Teaching of English by Dowsett, Patricia;

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Introduced and edited by Patricia Dowsett, the book includes an overview of Ian Reid’s professional activities, extending from linguistics and literacy to curriculum development, literary criticism and creative writing. It provides insights into his approaches to education policy, theory and practice.

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Introduced and edited by Patricia Dowsett, the book includes an overview of Ian Reid’s professional activities, extending from linguistics and literacy to curriculum development, literary criticism and creative writing. It provides insights into his approaches to education policy, theory and practice, serving as a foundational text for understanding the nature and extent of his influence and highlighting particularly his ongoing relevance to contemporary English education. 

This book provides an appraisal and curated selection of Reid’s remarkable body of work, which has made a profound and lasting impact on a range of fields, establishing him as an international leader in English teaching, literary studies and curriculum reform in schools and universities. It comprises twenty of his key papers written over a span of some forty-five years and structured around the influential concept of ‘framing’, with an Afterword written exclusively for this publication. Background notes indicating contexts of Reid’s work situate each item within the preoccupations of its period, and indicate how it continues to be pertinent. Practical questions posed at the end of every chapter capture the interconnections between theory and practice over the years.

An essential read for academics and students of curriculum studies, education policy as well as English language teaching, this book makes a significant contribution to the historical understanding of this expansive field and offers a valuable resource for reimagining current practices in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. It will appeal to readers with varying levels of familiarity and interest in the subject.

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Prologue

1. Memory Loss and Retrieval (2016)

Framing English

2. The Crisis in English Studies (1982)

3. Whatever Happened to English? (1996)

Framing Literature

4. The Literary Workshop (1984)

5. Beyond the Cinderella Syndrome: Other Sides of the Story (1984)

6. Reading as Displacement and Time Travel (2013)

7. Framing the Literature Curriculum (2017)

8. What Do We Now Make of ‘Literature’? (2024)

Framing Pedagogy

9. Enacting Curriculum Demands in Classroom Situations (2000)

10. The Persistent Pedagogy of Growth (2003)

11. Literature Teaching and Literary Experience Since the Growth Model (2016)

Framing Literacy

12. Textual Practice, Literacy and the Curriculum (1993)

13. Hasten Slowly: Educating Literacy Educators (1993)

14. From Capabilities to Habits: Across the Literacy Threshold and Beyond (1994)

Framing Genre

15. A Generic Frame for Debates about Genre (1987)

16. Redesigning Courses for English/Literature/Writing (1988)

17. How Do We Know What Kind of Text We are Reading? (1994)

Framing Student Writing

18. Reviewing (1987)

19. Bookmaking (1991)

20. Cooking (with or without recipes) (1995)

Afterword

21. Written Language: The Core of English Teaching (2026)