Rethinking L1 Education in a Global Era: The Subject in Focus by Per-Olof Erixon & Bill Green.- Part I.- Curriculum Inquiry, Didaktik Studies and L1 Education: Framing and Informing the L1 Subjects by Bill Green & Ellen Krogh.- From Grammar to Socio-Interactionism: L1 Education in Brazil by Luciene Simões & Rildo Cosson.- English Teaching as L1 Education and the Ambivalent Project of National Schooling:  Subject English in Comparative-Historical Perspective by Jory Brass & Bill Green.- Curricular L1 Disciplinarities: Between Norwegianness and Internationality by Sigmund Ongstsad.- Part II.- L1 Education and the Place of Literature by Irene Pieper.- The Marginalisation of Literature in Swedish L1: A Victim of Socio-Political Forces and Paradigmatic Changes by (Maria Löfgren & Per-Olof Erixon.- Bildung and Literacy in Subject Danish: Changing L1 Education by Ellen Krogh.- Between Grammar and Communication: Teaching L1 in the Czech Republic and England by Stanislav Štěpáník.- Part III.- The Ongoing Technocultural Production of L1: Current Practices and Future Prospects by Nikolaj Elf, Scott Bulfin & Dimitrios Koutsogiannis.- Nation and Nature in L1 Education:  Re-Evaluating the Mission of Subject English by Sasha Matthewman.- Part IV.- Understanding the (Post-)National L1 Subjects: Three Problematics by Bill Green & Per-Olof Erixon.  

This book brings together a range of scholars from 10 different countries to address the contemporary state of play in national standard language education – i.e. the L1 subjects. It seeks to understand the field from within a comparative-historical and transnational frame. Four thematic threads are woven through the volume: educationalisation; globalisation; pluriculturalism; and technologization. The chapters range over various aspects of L1 as a school subject: literature, language and literacy; reading and writing; media and digital technology; the dialogue between curriculum inquiry and Didaktik studies; the continuing relevance of Bildung; the significance of history and nation; and new challenges of culture and environment in the face of climate change. The book concludes with a reflection on the prospects for L1 education today and tomorrow, in a now thoroughly globalised context and, accordingly, deeply implicated in a necessary new project of nation re-building.

“Tracing both the history and current condition of L1 Subject English, this volume includes 10 chapters that address the forward movement of the field across multiple countries and social contexts. Each chapter goes well beyond narrow conceptions of language and literature or misguided notions of a singular “mother tongue.” I highly recommend this volume as a critical look at L1 Subject English from an international array of scholars.” (Thomas W. Bean, Old Dominion University, VA, USA)