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From the Basic Issues Conference to the Dartmouth Seminar: Perspectives on the Teaching Of English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Albert H. Marckwardt*
Affiliation:
Princeton University

Extract

It has been said with some justice that during the past one hundred years committees have functioned as the task forces of American educational reform. It might also have been added that the preliminary scouting or reconnaissance has been accomplished through the device of the conference. It is quite likely, therefore, that a comparison of the aims, organization, and outlook of the Basic Issues Conference of 1958 and the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966 will serve to place in some kind of perspective the significant trends in English teaching which are taking place in the country today and which may continue to be influential for some time to come.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 82 , Issue 4 , September 1967 , pp. 8 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1967

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References

* An address given at the meeting of the College Section of the National Council of Teachers of English in New York, 28 December 1966.