James Britton on Education
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- ISBN 9781032874869
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Dec 2024
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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James Britton’s work addresses central educational questions that are as relevant today as they were half a century ago. Britton was the architect of a theory of language and learning which has influenced the thinking and practice of generations of teachers across the anglophone world. This Reader helps teachers and students explore his theories of the relationships between language and thought, between thinking and feeling, the links between unconscious and conscious ways of knowing, and the symbolising nature of language.
This carefully curated collection of Britton’s key writings renders his work accessible to today’s students, educators and researchers. Fully annotated chapters explore how his work fuses observation and theory in a remarkable synthesis, and demonstrates the continuities between the early use of language and later, more complex achievements in speaking, listening, reading and writing.
All those involved in teacher education and training, including researchers and scholars, will find this a rich and insightful text.
Myra Barrs was Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Education, UK, and former director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education.
Tony Burgess has been a secondary-school teacher, before working in research and teacher education at the UCL Institute of Education, UK.
John Richmond has been an English teacher, an adviser of teachers and an educational broadcaster.
Jenifer Smith has been an English and drama teacher in both primary and secondary schools, before becoming a teacher educator at the University of East Anglia, UK.
John Yandell taught in secondary schools for 20 years before moving to the UCL Institute of Education, UK, where he is Professor of English in Education.