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
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
Whitechapel 1870-1900
@davidmullen141@Alec_Fisher@histassoc my Whitechapel 1870-1900 shelf. Also articles by Shpayer-Makov. pic.twitter.com/Z0yXgvKidU — ed_podesta (@ed_podesta) May 7, 2016 The other day I was asked on Twitter about the books that I read whilst writing the Whitechapel 1870-1900 section of this book. Books
What is a textbook IV What are Textbooks for – in classrooms?
In my last post on this topic I explored the ‘conditioning’ and ‘coherence’ effects that Tim Oates claims at state level in his policy paper ‘Why Textbooks Count’. In that post I set out my concerns about the way the
5 great podcasts for history teachers*
My job means that I’m quite often in my car, and therefore listening to my radio. Unfortunately, this often seems to coincide with ‘moneybox live’ or Chris Evans. In response to this terrible conjunction, I’ve fallen back in love with podcasts.
Undergrad Day
Today is undergraduate day. I’m teaching a module on SEN in the secondary school to my undergrad PE and Secondary Ed students in May, and I want to be well prepared. I read an interesting study by Benjamin Bloom earlier
Historic Environment Studies – AQA in more depth
Last week I took an overview of all the environment studies. Though they’re (mostly) worth around 10% of the GCSE I wonder if they’ll be giving many HODs and teachers something to worry about as they start to think about
H.A. Northern History Forum: Global Learning
Wednesday’s HA event at Leeds Trinity had a stall manned by Pearson which set out their ‘Global Learning Programme‘. At the start of the keynote we were told of a CPD event being run by the university (and paid for
Historic Environment Studies at GCSE
There are big changes coming at KS4. Others have written excellent posts summarising the new specifications and the differences between them. On reflection there’s something for everyone in most specs – we will each find some aspects that we seem to
Great History spotted on the Web
I have read such great history around the web this week, that I thought I’d compile some of it into a post. Most of what I’ve spotted here should be directly relevant to teachers at KS3-5. A good example of that