Revisiting Dartmouth - 50 years on'

2016 marks 50 years since the Anglo-American Conference on the Teaching and Learning of English was held at Dartmouth College. Since referred to as ‘the Dartmouth Seminar’, or simply ‘Dartmouth’, its legacy, in various forms, was the subject of the preconference symposium held at this year’s AATE/ALEA conference. There in Adelaide, just as Anglo-American delegates had done so in Dartmouth fifty years prior, participants asked each other, ‘What is English?’ Over a day, local and international teachers, teacher-educators, professors and curriculum historians sought to probe the themes, concerns and direction of secondary English education with reference to the present moment, most notably the context of a (new) national curriculum in Australia.