Grey/green: Anne Turvey’s politics of education

The article is an appreciation of the work of Anne Turvey as a teacher, a teacher educator and a researcher. It discusses her evolving responses (1988–2015) to government-driven changes in the teaching of English in schools and teacher education. It shows how throughout this period she supported practices informed by Vygotskian theory and by a close attention to the cultures of London school-students. In doing so, she contributed significantly to the development, in hard times, of less reductive and impoverished versions of English.