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Peter Medway: of his time?

Wayne Sawyer

English Teaching: Practice & Critique

ISSN: 2059-5727

Article publication date: 3 May 2016

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the important work of Peter Medway in seeking to define English as a school subject in the period from the 1980s to the early years of this century.

Design/methodology/approach

The author reviews the work of Peter Medway.

Findings

The paper addresses the issue of how his work reflected – or not – the curriculum thinking of his time and the complexity of ideas he brought to this endeavour.

Originality/value

This paper is an original look at the work of Peter Medway in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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Citation

Sawyer, W. (2016), "Peter Medway: of his time?", English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 22-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-11-2015-0095

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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