MVILAIN@G.BBN.COM (Marc Vilain) (11/08/88)
BBN Science Development Program
AI/EDUCATION Seminar Series Lecture
WRITING AND READING: THE VIEW FROM THE U.K.
John Dixon
BBN Labs
10 Moulton Street
2nd floor large conference room
10:30 am, Thursday November 10
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John Dixon is an educational writer and consultant from London,
England, who has been a teacher in an inner-city school in London
as well as a Senior Lecturer in a teacher training college at Leeds.
Dixon is the author of "Growth through English", the major report of
the Anglo-American Dartmouth Seminar in 1966. His writing since then
has included anthologies for school use and a number of books on the
teaching of writing, the most recent of which is "Writing Narrative -
and Beyond".
For many years a member of and then chair of The Schools Council
Committee on English, Dixon has directed research and studies on
Teaching English to the School Leaving Age and has investigated
the effect of the questions asked on university examinations on
the teaching of literature in schools.
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