Foundations of English Education

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(F) Offered Fall, odd years. ENGL 560 is designed to help practicing English, literacy, and language educators understand how contemporary conceptions of the secondary school subject “English” have emerged—and evolve—from a complex set of histories, politics, and ideologies. An underlying assumption is that what we currently know of as the school subject “English” is as much a constellation of (often competing and contradictory) conceptions that are defined and authorized by a wide range of stakeholders (e.g., students, teachers, administrators, corporate test makers, politicians) than a stable set of disciplinary-based epistemologies and methodological approaches.