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.