Dr John Hardcastle

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Lecturer in English Education
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
  • Summary:
    • John Hardcastle lectures in English. Previously, he taught in a London secondary school. He has written about urban classrooms, culture, and diversity as well as sociocultural theory. Vygotsky's picture of mind has been a particular focus. He is currently researching in the history of post-war English teaching in London.
  • Teaching:
    • PGCE English
      • MTeach - Module Leader (Talus)
      • PhD Supervision
      • Doctoral Studies: Vygotsky Reading Group

      Additional Teaching Responsibilities
      • Contributor to B Ed programme
      • Contributor to Philosophy Masters Programme (MKU)
      • Contributor to English MA (2009/10)
  • Research Projects:
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Postgraduate research interests and projects include:
      the co-construction of meaning in culturally complex literature classrooms (in Japan); the role of professional memory in constructing versions of English: an oral history of English teaching in the seventies; an investigation of the social mediation of literary texts in an inner city classroom; a study of self-directed adolescent readers; looking into teachers' attitudes to talk in classrooms; A history of the London Association of Teachers of English (LATE): a study of teacher-led professional development in the post-war period; a study of Polish Schools in London
  • Professional Activities:
    • • Editorial Board of Changing English: an International Journal of English Teaching
      • Co-Editor of Routledge series, Teaching School Subjects
      • Guest Editor of English Teaching: Practice & Critique (international online journal)
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • France: history of langage studies
      Germany: hstory of language studies
      Russia: history of psychology
      United States: English teaching
 

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 618a
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Hardcastle, J.L. (2002) 'Carlos' Task': Pictures of Language and English Teaching', Changing English 9(1), 31-45.
  • Kress, G., Jewitt, C., Bourne, J., Franks, A. Hardcastle, J. and Reid, E. (2004) English in Urban Classrooms: A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning. London and New York: RoutledgeFalmer.
  • Hardcastle, J.L. (2005) 'Of Dogs and Martyrs: Sherrington, Richards, Pavlov and Vygotsky', Changing English 12(1), 31-42.
  • Hardcastle, J.L. (2008) 'Explaining the Actions of Men and Gods', Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture
  • Hardcastle, J. L. (2008) 'Four Photographs in an English Course Book: A Study in the Visual Archaeology of Urban Schooling', Changing English 15(1),
  • Burgess, A. M. K.and Hardcastle, J. L. (2000) 'Englishes and English: Schooling and the Making of the School Subject', School Subjects in an Era of Change
  • Hardcastle, J.L. (1999) 'Von Humboldt's Children: English and the Formation of a European Ideal', Changing English 6(1), 31-45.
  • Hardcastle, J. L. (2009) 'Vygotsky's Enlightenment Precursors', Educational Review