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Oracy
  • The Politics of Speech Education
  • Edited by Tom F. Wright
  • Published online:
    23 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025
  • Oracy – or 'speaking and listening skills' – has become one of the most prominent ideas in modern education. But where has this idea come from? Should oracy education be seen as positive, or does it hold unintended consequences? How can problems over definitions, teaching and assessment ever be overcome? This timely book brings together prominent practitioners and researchers to explore the often overlooked implications of speaking and listening education. It features essays from teachers, school leaders, political advisers and charity heads, and from leading thinkers across the fields of linguistics, political science, history, Classics and anthropology. Together, they consider the benefits and risks of oracy education, place it in global context, and offer practical guidance for those trying to implement it on the ground. By demystifying one of the most important yet contentious ideas in modern education, this book offers a vital roadmap for how schools can make oracy work for all.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Tom F. Wright, University of Sussex
  • Book:
    Oracy
    Published online:
    23 September 2025
    Print publication:
    31 July 2025, pp 1-18

  • Summary

    This introductory chapter provides a brief survey of working definitions of oracy, including a history of the concept in British educational thought, and offers ways of contextualising the idea within broader debates over speaking and listening in popular culture.