Few things in education are as spectacularly emotive and ire-inducing as the choice of books we read for English Literature in schools. This last week we have seen Gove receive …
A New English Curriculum
Shining a Light on the Literary Canon “…the more familiar we become with the nature of these shaping forms and forces lying beneath the surface of stories, pushing them into …
Teaching and Learning the Literary Canon
“To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight …