Michael Rosen

A place where I'll post up some thoughts and ideas - especially on literature in education, children's literature in general, poetry, reading, writing, teaching and thoughts on current affairs.

Friday, 18 May 2018

Education - what for? Where? When? How?

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I've been trying an experiment. What happens if you put 'how', 'why', 'when', 'what for', 'where...

Friday, 11 May 2018

Gérard Genette - a mini-obituary

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The great narratologist, Gérard Genette has died. He wrote about how stories, novels, fictions of all kinds are put together or 'told...

Monday, 16 April 2018

The great linguist, M.A.K. Halliday has died.

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The great linguist, M.A.K. Halliday has died. His work used to be central to the way secondary English teachers treated language as 'lan...

Infected with superiority

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People who've led lives growing up in suburbs, in comfortable homes, going to schools with glorious playing fields, playing in orchestra...

Sunday, 4 March 2018

Is Education getting better?

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The way to convince people that education is getting better is to restrict education to what can be tested, train teachers (or force...

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

Writing for pleasure 8 - what have I left out?

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It's easy when writing things like this to tie everything up into neat programmes or lists of things to do. I've tried to make clear...

Writing for Pleasure 7 Distribution

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Distribution An important, significant part of this whole process is what we do with whatever it is the pupils write. Traditionally, most ...

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