New Newbolt Report

Andrew Green is a Senior Lecturer in English Education at Brunel University London, UK.

• Series editor's introduction. Preface. List of contributors. Part I: Contexts for Newbolt. 1. Contexts for Newbolt: Introduction. 2. The Newbolt Report and its contexts. 3. Colleagues in collaboration: The story behind Newbolt's Committee. 4. A tale of two committees: Newbolt illuminated through the Cox models. 5. Speaking silently: Voice poverty and The Newbolt Report. 6. The 'spirit' of Newbolt: Education, war and technology. Part II: Newbolt, language and literature. 7. Newbolt, language and literature: Introduction. 8. 'Evil habits of speech' and 'correct grammar': A genealogy of language ideologies in Newbolt and contemporary education policy. 9. While waiting for the poet: Speech and conversation in The Newbolt Report. 10. The Newbolt Report: The art of the progressive. 11. Primum mobile: The genesis of The Newbolt Report. 12. Transporting English(ness): The influence of The Newbolt Report on the subject of English in secondary schools in Australia. Part III: Newbolt and education. 13. Newbolt and education: Introduction. 14. The Newbolt Report: Discussing empire, race and racism in the classroom. 15. Diversity and The Newbolt Report. 16. 'The right sort of reading': Three post-Newbolt anthologies as libraries in parvo and pedagogic prompt-books. 17. A century of teaching creative writing in schools. 18. The purpose of education and the persistence of a silenced debate: Reflections on the teaching of English. 19. The significance of emotion in English literature teaching: From Newbolt to today. Afterword: The New Newbolt: A vision from the past or a vision for the future?

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