#EnglishCreates: Futures
We are thrilled to share today's blog by Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP:

'Literature is the way we exercise the muscle of the imagination... And unless we can imagine a greener, fairer world, we’ll struggle to achieve it.'

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NEW: Stamp the Learning: the role of Metacognition in Discourse Instruction (PART 4)

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Teaching Discourse: Scaffolding Talk to Enact Disciplinary thinking in the KS5 Literature Classroom (PART 3)

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NEW: Planning for Discourse: Structuring Productive Struggle in KS5 English Literature (PART 2)

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NEW BLOG: Why Conversation Is a Threshold Concept in Key Stage 5 English Literature (PART 1)

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Sounds interesting! I’d be curious to know what other texts you think might work well?

The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture

When university, or buying a house, are so expensive for young people, it’s no surprise that going to uni becomes more of a transaction - STEM a means to a stable job.

But English literature falling in popularity will leave us with dreary, diminished culture.

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NEW BLOG POST: 'The Gothic sublime in Frankenstein' theworldinverted167685171.wordpress.com/2024/12/01/t... 🌒🏔️

Hi Peter. I'd love to have a chat about this role / possible future roles. Happy to message, email or Zoom.

Superb article by CAPE. Particularly love the emphasis placed on the importance of respecting the “unique contributions of each discipline…grounded in subject-specific knowledge”.

Barren landscapes, wild/wilderness and Channing’s ‘The Barren Moors’ In my last blog, I explored awe in Frankenstein and Shelley’s critical engagement with Romanticism. In particular, I considered the apparent contradiction in Shelley’s use of Romantic tropes: despi…

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