Introduction: The remarkable careers of English teachers Andrew Goodwyn SECTION 1 WHAT MAKES AN ENGLISH TEACHER Chapter 1: ‘I can’t imagine a better profession’: Factors influencing the decision to teach English Jacqueline Manuel and Janet Dutton Chapter 2: Literature, university education and the making of English teachers Wayne Sawyer, Larissa McLean Davies and Philip Mead Chapter 3: English Teachers as Readers: Identity and Knowledge Matthew Sroka, Judith Franzak and Don Zancanella Chapter 4: Stylistics as pedagogy: the value of literary linguistics for the secondary literature classroom Marcello Giovanelli Chapter 5: Becoming an English teacher: An Arts-informed and inquiry-based model of Initial Teacher Education Janet Dutton and Jackie Manuel SECTION 2 INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION Chapter 6: A critical overview of ITE in England Rachel Roberts Chapter 7: On mirages and monsters: English Language Arts for the untimely Dennis Sumara and Rebecca Luce-Kapler Chapter 8: Developing English teachers in New Zealand: The battle for professional knowledge Terry Locke Chapter 9: Balancing intervention and agency: Reform agendas and innovations in Initial Teacher Education in Australia Wayne Sawyer, Jacqueline Manuel and Cal Durrant Chapter 10: The Complex Enterprise of US Secondary English Teacher Education Marshall A. George, Melanie Shoffner and Lisa Scherff Chapter 11: Blending the old with the new: Year-long Secondary English internships in Western Australia Cal Durrant and Susan Ledger Chapter 12: Disruptive synergy: Reframing the policy-practice discourse to transform teacher education Tiffany Karalis Noel, Amanda Winkelsas and Julie Gorlewski SECTION 3 LIFE AS AN ENGLISH TEACHER Chapter 13: A praxis of pre-service English teacher writing: Walter Benjamin and ‘operating writers’ in an age of standardisation Graham Parr, Scott Bulfin and Fleur Diamond Chapter 14: Sustaining professional learning for sustainable rural contexts: The power of the National Writing project in developing adaptive expertise James E. Fredricksen and Tanya Baker Chapter 15: An activist democratic model of teacher professional learning: The Teaching and Learning Caskets Imaginarium Jacqueline Manuel, Claire Hansen and Liam E. Semler Chapter 16: Developing teachers’ writing lives: A case study of English teacher professional learning Don Carter and Joanne Yoo Chapter 17: The fate of critical literacy in an age of standards-based hegemonies: The New Zealand context Susan Sandretto, Derek Shafer and Terry Locke SECTION 4 GREAT TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Chapter 18: The attrition of the expertise of teachers of English: From the rich pedagogy of personal and social agency to the poverty of the powerful knowledge heritage model Andrew Goodwyn Chapter 19: Expert English teachers as/in groups Wayne Sawyer Chapter 20: Long time becoming: The role of cultural memory and professional learning in sustaining English teaching Fleur Diamond, Scott Bulfin and Graham Parr Chapter 21: Teachers of writing also write: Insights from the Toronto Writing Project Ben Gallagher, Ashleigh A. Allen and Rob Simon Chapter 22: The courage to teach today: What do teachers need? Ken Lindblom and Leila Christenbury