Includes bibliographical references and index.

Literacies and literatures: creative possibilities -- What does it mean to know in English -- Opportunities or constraints? Where is the space for culturally responsive poetry teaching within high stakes testing regimes at 16+ in Aotearoa, New Zealand and England? -- Teachers researching literacy lives -- Student, reader, critic, teacher: issues and identities in post-16 English literature -- Machines to think with? E-books, Kindles and English teachers, the much prophesied death of the book revisited -- The online identities and discourses of teenagers who blog about book -- Rewriting the canon: literature curricula text lists -- Teaching reading in a digital age: towards an understanding of pedagogic practice -- The past: a "foreign country" worth visiting? -- Developing student independence in English -- Language as putty; framing a relationship between grammar and writing -- English teachers, low SES students and intellectual challenge: cases from Australia -- Is it endgame for teacher preparation in U.S. universities? -- With rest, and time, and a little hope: moving into virtual worlds through multi-modal literacy forms -- You are what you read: text selection and cultural capital in the (globalising) English classroom -- Web of deceit: is the internet making your students dumb? -- Implementation of digital technologies: creating new conversations with students -- the (designed) influence of culture on eportfolio practice.