by JOHN ADAMS Head of English Department, Sevenoaks School
Since F. R. Leavis and Denys Thompson published Culture and Environment in 1933, it has gradually come to be accepted that English teaching must concern itself with the Media and the commercial scene. But how? Mr Adams holds that value judgments cannot be divorced from awareness of the social pressures which shape the media, and that children need to discover through practice how a medium moutds its message,