by Elena Rossi | Jan 5, 2023
Ailsa Maxwell, Keble College, Oxford The British are well known for their love of tea. In fact, over 100,000,000 cups are drunk in the United Kingdom every single day of the year. Children have always been a part of this culture. For example, it was estimated that 55%...
by Elena Rossi | Dec 6, 2022
Malcolm Tozer Physical literacy, as applied to the physical education of children and the lifelong well-being of adults, has many advocates. The International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA) publishes a definition on its website and claims that the concept owes...
by Elena Rossi | Oct 22, 2022
Joel Barnes, University of Queensland In a recent article for History of Education I have traced the Australian reception of the ‘Two Cultures’ controversy between C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, and situated the local debate in shifting...
by Elena Rossi | Jun 17, 2022
Elena Rossi, Magdalen College, Oxford Ever fallen asleep in a boring class? Had a lecturer that always let their classes overrun? What if you could fine your lecturers for this audacious behaviour? It may sound crazy, but this was the reality for teachers in the early...
by Elena Rossi | May 20, 2022
Jamie Trezise, University of Sussex When considering the educational reforms of the 20th century, it will most likely be the 1944 Education Act, pioneered by Rab Butler, that comes to mind, which introduced secondary education for all.[1] Or perhaps it might be the...
by Elena Rossi | May 13, 2022
Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman, Witten/Herdecke University How did a musician and music historian like me become interested in the debates on classical education dating back more than a century? Like many other Russian humanities scholars, I realized only in my twenties...
