Chloe Bateman recognised the value to her Key Stage 3 pupils of developing rich subject knowledge, but wanted to find a way of encouraging them to value that knowledge for themselves. In this article she explains how she provided that inspiration by setting her Year 7 class the challenge of writing convincing and engaging historical fiction set in…

The trouble with education research is that the research is burdened with trouble before it begins. Working as a poststructural education researcher and engaged in a recent research project that sought to engage with questions of teacher identity, I employed an alternative data elicitation method of literary response groups--similar to that of…

States that as electronic media increasingly begins to dominate narratives for children, the very nature of narrative is changing. Explains that the future of children's literature depends upon the application of understanding intellectual changes, at least through a revision of the meanings of literate and good reader. (CMK)