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We are delighted to announce that our annual free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics will take place 20-24 June 2022 in an online format. This year, we will offer three summer schools - read more & apply for a place: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummersc… Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster Uni CASS

Can’t believe the lovely responses I got to my Ofsted tweet. Here is the current version of the KS3 curriculum (which formed most of the conversation)-but there was a lot of reading/research/thinking/adapting which got us to this. Let me know if you have Qs.

In our latest issue of Impact, Juan Fernandez shares how cognitive science can be used in curriculum design. Read it on our new MyCollege: buff.ly/34iprbh

Interesting finding from Teacher Tapp - what is it about English as a school subject that means its teachers don't join subject associations? I'd be interested to hear from English teachers who aren't members - why not?

I do wonder in the “curriculum fetish era” how many teachers have been forced to copy and paste chunks of text from one scheme of work into another, spend hours writing “intent statements” and design beautiful new “maps” around trainlines or forests, using pre existing text.

🧵 I’ve been thinking about collaborative curriculum development and why it’s so important.. 💭 the *perfect* English curriculum doesn’t exist, because it needs to attend to context- context of who it will serve, but also who enacts it.

Lynne Murphy English & Media Ctr This reminds me of recent study looking into why Macbeth is so creepy. Conclusion: “the” appears more frequently in the text than normal. onezero.medium.com/how-data-scien…

This is a fantastic explorative article about knowledge-rich curricula - and the debate around the concept - with some fascinating comments from Katharine Birbalsingh @GuyClaxton Mark Enser 🌍 and others. A long read by John Morgan tes.com/magazine/teach…

Secondary English teachers/ academics. Can you definite the purpose of secondary English in a single tweet? @TabitaSurge Heidi Drake 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 @MsJasmineMN Team English Jennifer Webb Matt Lynch Stuart Pryke Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation Robert Eaglestone

Webinar recording: The case for introductory curriculum overviews to support schema building. youtu.be/9empRZ7Y4yY

"English lessons drain our language of all its beauty....So why send them to school in order to be taught ungraceful pseudo-scientific linguistic labels, and rebuked for not painfully dissecting every sentence they write? Enough!" #LibbyPurves⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ thetimes.co.uk/article/99c29a…

"The analogy of the ‘curriculum as a box set’ (Almond, 2020) presents an image of the curriculum as a carefully planned television series with an overarching storyline running through the entirety of the series. Each year group corresponds to a season..." Tinkler & Bone 1/2

Reminder: ‘The curriculum is never simply a neutral assemblage of knowledge, somehow appearing in the texts and classrooms of a nation. It is always part of a selective tradition, someone’s selection, some group’s vision of legitimate knowledge...’ Apple (1993)

To use in case of language panics: descriptive explanation of prescriptivism [Labov, 2001: 6 and 514] Best way to start the week is with a visit to the library!

Just published: the back story of the 'knowledge curriculum': The Genealogy of ‘Cultural Literacy’ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Nick Gibb, Michael Gove, Robert Eaglestone National Association for the Teaching of English

Pondering the most effective way to visually represent curriculum this morning (as I dry my hair). 🤔 Road map? Table? Spiral or funnel? Spider diagram? Any thoughts on this? oliver caviglioli Mary Myatt Christine Counsell @benniekara Clare Sealy Kat Howard

Calling interested English teachers to participate in PhD research on the metaphors we use to conceptualise subject English. National Association for the Teaching of English Team English English & Media Ctr UKLA English Association would really appreciate a retweet. For more information, DM or email.

Still in need of 3 more teachers to take part in my PhD research. Please retweet National Association for the Teaching of English Team English English & Media Ctr UKLA English Association (thank you). Email or DM if interested in taking part.

Aston Stylistics Research Group Social Sciences and Humanities at Aston University is hosting an online ‘Stylistics in Education’ symposium in the autumn. Details/CfP here! PALA Literary Semantics National Association for the Teaching of English Team English BAAL: British Association for Applied Linguistics BERA English Association appliedstylistics.wordpress.com/stylistics-in-…

Aston Stylistics Research Group Social Sciences and Humanities at Aston University is hosting an online 'Stylistics in Education' symposium on 30th October (half term). Register here- bit.ly/3TRvha0. Teachers & researchers welcome! PALA Literary Semantics National Association for the Teaching of English Team English BERA English Association.