Only Connect

I have a chapter (11) in Only Connect: English teaching, schooling, and community, edited by Brenton Doecke, Mark Howie and Wayne Sawyer, Wakefield Press/AATE Interface Series.

"At a time when popular media are promoting a view of schooling as ‘drilling and skilling’, this book argues the role schools should play in producing a literate, imaginative, and critically engaged citizenry. Writing out of diverse locations and settings, the authors emphasise the importance of schooling as a common enterprise where teachers and students, schools and communities can participate in a socially productive dialogue."

One of our editors and VATE Advocacy Committee members (of which I am also a member) Brenton recently emailed: "I have just received my copy of English in Australia which contains a rather diffuse but positive review of 'only connect' by Rob Pope. Several advoc people (most notably Pippa Kirwan and Natalie Bellis) get special mention.

http://www.aate.org.au/media/releases06/smartening.html