Disciplines Of English

Literacy, English language, and English literature represent fundamentally different forms of knowledge and cognition. Treating them as interchangeable undermines conceptual clarity, overloads learners cognitively, compromises assessment validity, and weakens disciplinary integrity. A curriculum that distinguishes them—while allowing meaningful connections—produces clearer progression, fairer assessment, and deeper learning. Though, they could be considered taxonomical in that both Language and Literature require an adequate degree of literacy to access those curriculum.

Discipline-Of-English-Mission-Statement-v4Download

Each discipline has an additional mission statement that suppliments the department statement.

Syllabus-Map-v3Download

Each department has an additional syllabus map indicating what topics, deadlines and expactations need to be met in the given periods.

One of the key assertions within Discipline Of English, is that English is a department of disciplines (the name, disciplineofenglish.co.uk may need some adaptation). English as a department delivers Language, Literature, Literacy and Oracy. Each has its own unique curriculum of knowledge with little overlap between. This knowledge is under review during assessments.

However, the disciplines share some key fundamental components – this is the centre of the Venn diagram of English. It can be reduced down to three concepts which should be used as introductions to all English modules.