Towards 2000

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Summary -- Introduction -- Section 1 Contextual Issues -- Chapter 1 Literature in Schools: A Brief Review -- Chapter 2 Reading the English Curriculum: An Analysis of Intention and Effect -- Chapter 3 Childhood and Schooling in the 1990s -- Appendix National Curriculum Revised Orders for English, January, 1995 -- Section 2 Classroom Issues -- Chapter 4 Playing the Book: A Response to Literature at Key Stage 1 (5-7) -- Chapter 5 Teaching Through Text: Developing Reading (7-11) -- Chapter 6 Encouraging Wider Reading: Classroom Strategies (11-16) -- Chapter 7 Coping with Assessment: An Approach to Recent Developments (11-16) -- Chapter 8 'The Empty Space of Not Knowing': Childhood, Education and Race in African-American Literature (14-19) -- Section 3 Principles in Practice -- Chapter 9 Towards 2000: Tomorrow's Books, Tomorrow's Readers -- Notes on Contributors -- Index