“I Am What I Am Not Yet”: A Progress Report on the Study of the Learning Journeys of the First Modern Teaching Artists

This in-process study investigates experiences of Lincoln Center's first teaching artists, connecting their work in the 1970s to contemporary practice.     

Piggy in Lord of the Flies: A“Great Martyr”

Lord of the Flies is generally considered to be the masterpiece of William Golding,one of the most famous writers in the 20thcentury.There are four major characters in Lord of the Flies,Ralph,Jack,Piggy and Simon.Piggy is a character that Golding elaborately designs.However,scholars and critics pay less attention to him.As a matter of fact,Piggy plays an indispensable role in this novel.This thesis analyzes Piggy in Lord of the Flies,which aims at exploring the real reason of his being looked down upon and laughed at as well as his tragedy and deepening readers’understanding of Piggy in this novel.Through the analysis of Piggy,the author of this thesis finds that Piggy is incarnation of science and reason and prey of evil and barbarism.Piggy is a"great martyr",who dies for his scientific and rational beliefs.     

“A sense of the spoken”: Language inThe Owl Service

Alan Garner'sThe Owl Service has continued to attract critical attention since it won the Carnegie Medal in 1967.CLE is delighted to add to the debate with two pieces which complement each other, and which both consider the issue which has most divided critics: the resolution to the novel in which the seemingly less sympathetic Roger (rather than the Welsh boy, Gwyn) is enabled to save the beroine, Alison. Readers may agree with our second contributor, Andrew Taylor, that the book needs to be re-explored.Alan Garner's fourth novel,The Owl Service (1967), won both the Carnegie Medal and The Guardian Award. The story concerns the relationships of three adolescents in an enclosed Welsh valley. Alison and her step-brother Roger are English, staying in the farmhouse used by Alison's family as a holiday home for many years. Gwyn, who is Welsh, is the son of the cook, Nancy. The three are caught up in a reenactment of one of the tragic and violent legends from theMabinogion—as, it emerges, generations have been before them, often with fatal consequences. Some of the bruised participants in previous enactments of the legend are present as adults as this particular cycle of the frightening legend begins.This article focuses on the varieties of language use which occur in the text, providing fresh insights into the crafting of the novel. Lockwood's study is of particular appropriateness at a time when the new National Curriculum in England and Wales requires students to develop knowledge about language, that is, to become more aware of how language works in a variety of texts.Michael Lockwood taught in Middle Schools in Oxfordshire for eight years before taking up his present position in the Faculty of Education of the University of Reading. His research interests are in the areas of Children's Literature and Teaching and Learning in the field of Knowledge about Language.     

“Inclusive education: The way of the future”—A rebuttal

At the general presentation of the 48th session of the International Conference on Education, “Inclusive Education: The Way of the Future”, a “holistic” approach was advocated to improve educational opportunities for children who are excluded from an equal education and adults who are illiterate. The first part of this paper argues that a more effective approach would be “piecemeal social engineering”. The second section presents examples of the piecemeal or targeted approach and offers suggestions for applying it to improve educational opportunities for this group.     

Mission of Modern Universities and Development of Modern Society

This article, in the perspective of dialectics, makes a discussion of three relations between modern universities and the development of modern society, namely that between technicality and sociality, between service and criticism, and between temporal character and internationalism.