In this paper, the authors consider how Carol Dweck's concept of growth mindset has been misconceptualised. They explore the proposition that agency is an important aspect of growth mindset and that the effects of hard work by children is reduced when agency is limited. They draw on qualitative data from 84 interviews with 23 participant children…

The role of the middle manager has proved to be a difficult one to define due to the fluid nature of the tasks performed and the heterogeneity of understanding that exists for the term. This is further complicated by the differences associated with the context in which individual manager's work. This research, which explores the drive towards…

The researcher analyzed the Result and Discussion Sections of 10 dissertations of Iranian PhD students and 10 British PhD students by aiming to investigate their use of politeness strategies using Brown and Levinson's (1987) taxonomy and its relationship with the gender of the authors. The results proved that Iranian writers most frequently used…

The paper takes as its starting point the relationship between the "New English", a curriculum movement commonly associated with the 1960s and 1970s, and the New Education, an influential general educational reform movement of the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. It inquires into the…

Presents the students' evaluation of a course in literature designed to prepare students for the Certificate of Secondary Education. (RB)

Suggests the best ways to see Great Britain as a tourist. (JL)

Defends English instruction against the current trend of integrating such classes into humanities programs, arguing for the uniqueness and unpredictability of all experience and the human capacity to recreate, share, and evaluate experience as is taught in English. (Author/RB)

Suggests that the neglect of poetry and reporting in English instruction is rooted in certain assumptions about the nature of literature, imagination, and narrative. Asserts that this damages children's experience of reading and their experience as writers. (MM)

A description of a British language educational television course using drama. (HB)

Raises questions about the quality of examination questions on the language paper for the Certificate of Secondary Education in Britain and questions some of the objectives of British education. (RB)

Criticizes a previously published article by Peter Abbs for misunderstanding sociolinguistic and structuralist influences on English curriculum. Includes a response from Abbs.

Examines the Working Party on English Literature's report on the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Concludes that the report attempts both to validate and challenge some basic GCSE assumptions, and that its total rejection of criterion-referencing constitutes a much-needed stand against GCSE grading practices. (MM)

Discusses the meaning of "Good English," the distinction between functional efficacy and aesthetic value, and why teachers teach writing. (JAD)

Examines the impulses that led to the curriculum reform movements in the United States and Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. (RB)

Describes a strategy for teaching Shakespeare's "As You Like It." (MM)