I’ve been doing some historical reading recently for a potential project about school meals in turn of the 20th Century Bradford. It is lovely to be reading and thinking about history again, after a long break, enforced by taking up
Review: A Philosophy of Schooling by Dr Julian Stern
Review and Welcome of A Philosophy of Schooling by Dr Julian Stern(1) This is the ‘welcome’ to Julian Stern’s thought-provoking book that I gave at meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain at Leeds Trinity University on
A review of Education: An Anatomy of the Discipline, by John Furlong (Part 2)
In the first part of this review we looked at Furlong’s description of the issues which have faced Education as a discipline, and the ways that these issues have resulted in Education taking up a marginalised position in the University.
A review of Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline by John Furlong (part 1)
I found this book to be really informative, and in many ways empowering – it’s especially helpful to me as a relatively new entrant to the job of overseeing the work of Initial Teacher Educators, and it has given me
Cleverlands by Lucy Crehan
I‘m not usually a big fan of international comparisons, or borrowing policy from more successful jurisdictions. This suspicion has been made much more acute by the egregious policy cherry picking carried out by lobbyists, politicians (from all parties) and academy
Michael F.D. Young, Graduate Teachers and the Hero’s Journey
Just over a year ago I started reading books that I thought I wouldn’t agree with. One of those books was E.D. Hirsch’s ‘Cultural Literacy’, and although I didn’t agree with it (as feared), I will be forever grateful that
The ones that got away.
Sometimes, often in the long night, we think back over things we’ve done. After a good day, these are often cinematic valedictions of the brilliance of our achievements, the goal scored, the child saved, the answer to the quiz question
Project Halpin: ‘Cultural Literacy’ (2) – Hirsch, Knowledge and the Learner
This is part of a series of posts that I’ve been writing over a much longer period than I originally planned. The idea came from a lecture given by David Halpin, in which he discussed the need for us to approach
Project Halpin: ‘Cultural Literacy’ (1) – Hirsch and the Reader
This is part of a series of posts that I’ve been writing over a much longer period than I originally planned. The idea came from a lecture given by David Halpin, in which he discussed the need for us to approach
Books I read about the Restoration of Charles II.
Helen on Twitter asked me today if I had any recommended reading for someone new to the Restoration period. It seems like quite a long time since I wrote the book for Hodder, but as many teachers will be