Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Why English? Rethinking The School Subject (Viv Ellis, With Carol Fox And Brian Street) Section 1: How History And Politics Have Shaped English Teaching Chapter 2 The Picture Of Development In Vygotskyan Theory: Renewing The Intellectual Project Of English (Tony Burgess) Chapter 3 Deep Winters, Invincible Summers: Teaching English For Existential Purposes (Bob Fecho, With Kristi Amatucci; Sarah Skinner) Chapter 4 English In The History Of Imperialism: Teaching The Empire How To Read (Patrick Walsh) Chapter 5 - Individual, Community And Society: A Response To Section 1 (Janet Laugharne) Section 2: Culture As A Verb: Teaching Literatures Chapter 6 - How Critical Is The Aesthetic? The Role Of Literature In English (Ray Misson And Wendy Morgan) Chapter 7 - History, War And Politics: Taking 'Comix' Seriously (Carol Fox) Chapter 8 - 'The Uncreating Word': Some Ways Not To Teach English (Joy Alexander) Chapter 9 - Refreshing The Aesthetic: A Response To Section 2 (Sue Dymoke) Section 3: Language(S), Multiple Literacies And The Question Of English Chapter 10 The New Literacy Studies And Multimodality: Implications For The Subject And The Language 'English' (Brian Street) Chapter 11 Resisting Monolingualism In 'English': Reading And Writing The Politics Of Language (Bruce Horner And Min-Zhan Lu) Chapter 12 English As A Multilingual Subject: Theoretical And Research Perspectives (Janina Brutt-Griffler And James Collins) Chapter 13 The Multiple Languages And Literacies Of English: A Response To Section 3 (Suzanne M. Miller) Chapter 14 More Than 'Soldiering On? (Viv Ellis) Afterword by Shirley Brice Heath.