by Catherine Sloan | Nov 27, 2015
Last week saw the History of Education Society (UK)’s 2015 conference. Hosted by Liverpool Hope University, we arrived at the beginning of a cold snap for three days of discussion of the themes of ‘Science, Technologies and Material Culture in the History of...
by Nancy G Rosoff | Nov 26, 2015
The 2015 HES conference offered a wide variety of papers that focused on the relation among science, technology, material culture, and education. As an overseas delegate, I am always struck by the cordiality of the conference, which welcomes researchers at all levels...
by Susannah Wright | Nov 25, 2015
A year ago, on 27th November 2014, the British Department for Education launched its non-statutory guidance calling for schools to actively promote ‘Fundamental British Values’ as part of pupils’ Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural education in schools, the values...
by History of Education Society | Nov 12, 2015
By Peter Cunningham I visited our Faculty archive for a conference we’re holding next year to mark the centenary of Democracy and Education. I wanted to explore when and how Dewey entered the syllabus, but it turned out his entrance was painfully slow. What caught my...
by History of Education Society | Nov 6, 2015
By Ken ClaytonThomas Beard, Oliver Cromwell’s schoolmaster at Huntingdon Grammar SchoolTo be a master at a Grammar school in seventeenth century England might look like an enviable career. In fact, it seems that a high proportion of them were, in effect,...
