Wyse, D;
Bradbury, A;
(2022)
The passion, pedagogy and politics of reading.
English in Education
10.1080/04250494.2022.2091987.
(In press).
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Abstract
The teaching of reading has been a source of contentious debate for many years. Margaret Meek Spencer contributed her passion for the importance of specific texts to help children learn to read. In addition to the kinds of texts to be used, important aspects of the debateimportant aspects of the debate include the relationship between national curriculum policies and robust research evidence about what works in teaching reading This paper notes a historical trend in government policy that has included England's Department for Education in England’s strengthening its control of the curriculum and pedagogy for teaching reading in ways which run contrary to many of Meek Spencer’s arguments. The paper examines the use of statutory assessment, particularly a Phonics Screening Check, its influence on pedagogy and links with the politics of reading. We conclude that policy needs to be reformed to better reflect robust research evidence.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The passion, pedagogy and politics of reading |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/04250494.2022.2091987 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2022.2091987 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152356 |
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