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Schools and British values: past and present
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...
What kind of History for Education? … and finding new friends in the Archive
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...
Who were the schoolmasters in seventeenth century England?
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, clergymen in...
All the other educational places
We are pleased to announce that the re-scheduled Postgraduate Event All The Other Educational Places will take place on Thursday 26th November12.30 - 5pm in Committee Room 2, UCL Institute of Education, Bedford Way, London. This event explores education outside of...
Tracing evidence of the notion of ‘education through art’ in Australia and New Zealand, February – March 2015
by Catherine Burke 'Thinking about Alec Clegg in Australia and New Zealand,1950s-60s. So far to travel! Who did he meet? What did he do and which schools did he see?' [my diary entry 5th February, 2015] Education through art in Australia is a book published in...
When Education Escaped: Short–term Residential Education as ‘Transformation’
by Sharon Clancy At the start of 2014, I began my research on the ShropshireAdult Education College (SAEC) after months waiting to start, combining my time between finishing off in my job of 6 years and contemplating, with a mix of excitement and trepidation, a brand...
The effects of the civil wars on grammar schools in 17th century England
By Ken ClaytonHistorians have, for obvious reasons, concentrated on the military aspects of the English Civil Wars, yet there can be no doubt that the civilian population was affected, some very dramatically. This blog sets out some of the ways in which schools and...
New Horizons in the History of Education: conference report
Manchester Jewish Lads Brigade 1908 (Manchester Jewish Museum)By Steven Cowan and Alice Kirke The first annual conference of the International Centre for Historical Research in Education (ICHRE) held at the UCL-IOE last week brought together historians of...
The other spaces of education – beyond the university. The student hostels of the Hungarian Royal Elisabeth University between 1923 and 1941
by Adrienn Sztana-Kovács “Youth is eternal.” How true is this statement? Does student life actually change? Let us get a glimpse into it, and into an interesting education program, in 1930s Hungary. University student hostels were very important spaces for third...
Alumni Voices: Oral History and the History of Higher Education
Andrea JacobsUniversity of Winchester Was it a question mark or a hammer and sickle that the students of King Alfred’s College carved into the face of the nearby chalk down in the mid 1950s? Those interviewed for the Alumni Voices project at the University...