Encourages readers to become the best kind of secondary English teacher. This book offers practical applications of ideas and approaches, and presents a view of the subject, that is at the same time professionally and practically focused. It offers perspectives on the teaching of English and literacy.

This book encourages readers to become the best kind of secondary English teacher. The authors engage in practical applications of ideas and approaches, and present a rigorous and informed view of the subject, that is at the same time professionally and practically focused. Based on theorized and researched understandings of the essential nature of language and texts, the authors put forward a view of the subject which connects with current trends in the teaching of English and literacy.