Reports on the Senior English Educators Conference, called in response to widespread feelings that English education needs to be reexamined in relation to current developments in education and society. Focuses on graduate studies and research, teacher education, and the nature of English as an academic discipline. (RS)

Revealing something of the vast changes in intellectual life that are likely to follow the rapid expansion in the power and availability of computers, the essays in this book represent a serious effort to redefine the parameters of literacy debates of the 1980s. Discussions at the end of each of the five sections of the book represent an attempt…