John Guillory’s scientific contributions

... Regrettably, this represents a realistic snapshot of the texts we have observed being taught in contemporary London classrooms, and indeed chimes with recent survey data (Smith 2023) suggestive of a constricted literary diet on ofer in English departments throughout England and Wales, even at KS3 where a degree of curricular fexibility is possible. Curricular arguments around literature, identity and representation are complex (Coles 2020;Guillory 1993), but a foundational principle of any English curriculum should be that all young people have the right to see themselves refected positively in some of the texts they encounter at school (Bishop 2012;Chetty 2017). Lesley Nelson-Addy (2020, p. 35) concludes that the current English curriculum, as amended in 2014, amounts to 'a violent political statement' that does not even acknowledge its 'erasure of the Black presence and experience in Britain'. ...

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Drama at the Heart of English: Transforming Practice in the Secondary Classroom