Reacts to the essays in "Alice in Genderland," a publication of the National Association of Teachers of English, that are concerned with the ways in which society's sexually differentiated view of "normality" is mediated to children in schools. (HOD)

Describes the development and benefits of an inservice program to improve poetry teaching in middle school and high school English classes. (EL)

Examines the processes involved in resource based learning, especially the availability of resources, school structure, and teacher role. (HOD)

Presents the curriculum development work with which the English department at John Therry High School (New South Wales) has been involved, exploring five aspects of the project: (1) why the project was undertaken, (2) what the project is, (3) how the project worked, (4) the reality of the project, and (5) implications of the project. (HOD)

Credits George H. Henry for having a penetrating insight into the theory of English education and agrees that the Conference on English Education of the National Council of Teachers of English should set the philosophical directions for theory and research in English education. (HOD)

Disagrees with George Henry's condemnation of research as one way of seeking school improvement and argues that the problem rests with how such research is conducted and how it is reported to the profession. (HOD)

Notes that the problem facing educators now is to make a single educational system from several isolated activities while at the same time creating a general theory of discourse that will include them all. Proposes a curriculum to solve that problem. (FL)

Considers three issues that George Henry addresses: (1) English is a discipline, (2) science is objective, and (3) English is the only field in trouble. (HOD)

Describes an attempt to interrelate English and state history classes in a Texas middle school by assigning literature readings, such as Jack Schaeffer's novel "Shane," that help students understand the frontier period in Texas history. (RBW)

Recounts the processes involved in securing a grant from the National Humanities Faculty for the development of a new honors English curriculum. (HOD)

Recommends teaching journalism as an English course or in combination with an English course to ensure the continuation of journalism education in the face of more stringent graduate requirements. Describes such a course, which includes literature, a research paper, and regular composition assignments. (HTH)

Examines the role of certification of journalism instructors in improving the quality of journalism education and of high school publications. Discusses the relationship of journalism to the English curriculum. (HTH)

Offers suggestions for future research in English education which need to be considered if English education is to be viewed, studied, and implemented as an entity of importance to the total curriculum. (HOD)

Suggests women writers as alternatives to traditionally taught male writers, identifies women writers as representatives of parallel tradition and genres not usually studied in a survey, and discusses some of the best feminist scholarship and criticism. (MM)

This paper puts forward an argument for re-thinking the nature and function of English and English Education, especially the teaching of literature, and proposes a model of empathic intelligence, which helps to formulate how much re-shaping might occur. The paper states that English literacy educators have relied for far too long on a hybrid…