Background
Holbrook, David Kenneth was born on January 9, 1923 in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Son of Kenneth Redvers and Elsie Eleanor (Grimmer) Holbrook.
(Originally published in 1967, this second edition of Davi...)
Originally published in 1967, this second edition of David Holbrook's powerful plea for a fresh approach to English in secondary schools redesigned the text and brought it up to date. Holbrook's work was rooted in the British educational system, but attracted wide interest throughout the world.
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(This 1964 book examines the treatment of below average ch...)
This 1964 book examines the treatment of below average children in the British education system. In the secondary schools of Britain children were divided at 11 plus into the academic and non-academic, and sent accordingly to grammar and secondary modern schools. In the secondary moderns the children were streamed again, the more academic children doing work which approached grammar school standards. Holbrook writes powerfully and disturbingly about the teaching of the children of average or below average ability. He highlights how the British system was geared to the examining of the top layer of the age-group, the rest being 'unexaminable'.
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Holbrook, David Kenneth was born on January 9, 1923 in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Son of Kenneth Redvers and Elsie Eleanor (Grimmer) Holbrook.
Master of Arts (honorary), Cambridge University, 1947.
Assistant editor, Bureau Current Affairs, London, 1947-1951; tutor, Worker's Ednl. Association, Leicestershire, England, 1951-1953; tutor, Village College, Bassingbourn, Cambridge, 1954-1961; fellow, King's College, Cambridge, 1961-1965; lecturer, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1968-1970; writer in residence, Dartington Hall, England, 1971-1973; fellow, director English studies, Downing College, 1980-1988; Leverhulme Emeritus Research Fellow, Downing College, 1988-1990; Emeritus Fellow Downing College, since 1988. Distinguished visiting professor MacMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1985.
(Originally published in 1967, this second edition of Davi...)
(This book is an attempt to offer a fresh basis for critic...)
(This 1964 book examines the treatment of below average ch...)
Served to lieutenant British Military, 1942-1945. Fellow English Association (founder). Member Society Authors.
Married Frances Margaret Davies-Jones, April 23, 1949. Children: Suki, Kate, Jonathan, Thomas.