tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3288826781275738392024-03-13T00:15:56.522+00:00IoI Education Forum OpinionA blog of opinion pieces by members of the <a href="http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/educationforum.html">Institute of Ideas Education Forum</a>IoI Education Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04177486786908805105noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328882678127573839.post-26127780788490206112016-09-05T21:36:00.002+01:002016-09-05T21:51:05.618+01:00EF Podcast No 49: Making the Case for a Knowledge-Based Education Today<span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now.</span><br />
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Education Forum member Gareth Sturdy explores the extent to which E.D. Hirsch helps us to make the case for a knowledge-based education. This is the third of three lectures exploring the influence and significance of this contemporary educational thinker. Click on the triangle below to listen, or click <a href="https://archive.org/details/EducationForumPodcastNo49">here</a> to download.</div>
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IoI Education Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04177486786908805105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328882678127573839.post-3432193645682579462016-09-05T21:13:00.008+01:002016-09-05T21:55:59.748+01:00EF Podcast No 48: Cultural Literacy and the English School Curriculum<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #1b0431; font-size: 18.2px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Education Forum member Toby Marshall considers the influence of E.D. Hirsch on the new English state school curriculum. This is the second of three lectures exploring the influence and significance of this contemporary educational thinker. Click on the triangle below to listen, or click <a href="https://archive.org/details/EducationForumPodcastNo48">here</a> to download.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="140" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/EducationForumPodcastNo48" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="400"></iframe></div>
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IoI Education Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04177486786908805105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328882678127573839.post-29762760196252682182016-07-16T21:02:00.004+01:002016-07-16T21:45:16.980+01:00EF Podcast No. 47: The Idea of Cultural Literacy The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Education Forum member Harley Richardson outlines and appraises E.D. Hirsch’s notion of cultural literacy. This is the first of three lectures exploring the influence and significance of this contemporary educational thinker. Click on the triangle below to listen, or click <a href="https://archive.org/details/EducationForumPodcastNo47">here</a> to download.</span></div>
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IoI Education Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04177486786908805105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328882678127573839.post-35131605075078689012015-10-10T19:30:00.002+01:002015-10-19T13:35:12.262+01:00EF Podcast No. 41: What do new teachers need to know?The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now. Dr Peter Kent (ASCL immediate past president), Leila MacTavish (head of initial teacher education, Future Training, Future Academies), Angela McFarlane (chief executive and registrar, College of Teachers), Carolyn Robson (Vice-Chair, Teaching School Council) and Dr Alex Standish (senior lecturer in Geography Education, University College London) explore this issue. Click on the triangle below to listen, or click <a href="https://archive.org/details/EducationForumPodcastNo.41">here</a> to download.<br />
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The latest Education Forum podcast is available for download now. Education forum member Professor Dennis Hayes asks if we need to choose between 'Education or <i>Emile</i>? Click on the triangle below to listen, or click <a href="https://archive.org/details/EFPodcastNo38">here</a> to download. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="140" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://archive.org/embed/EFPodcastNo38" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="400"></iframe><br />
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IoI Education Forumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04177486786908805105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328882678127573839.post-55490891193571578432014-04-27T08:19:00.001+01:002015-06-27T21:32:17.228+01:00Who won the history wars?<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">Back in the ancient past of 2010
Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove proposed a new school History
curriculum which was roundly condemned by most of the acknowledged
experts. Gove promised to listen and in
2013 was back again with a revised version.
However, this time he was accused of constructing a ‘pub quiz’ and told
that he had not listened at all. Evans, Schama,
Ferguson as well as the Better History Group were courted then ignored, testimony to Gove’s apparent
‘tyranny’ over the process. August
bodies such as the Historical Association, the Royal Historical Society and the
British Academy were also said to be miffed by the lack of consultation. Then the underlying argument was apparently
had out (over skills v chronology; over British v world; over facts v meaning)
and Gove promised to revise the proposals. Now, it’s 2014 and the updated
History curriculum is being advanced as part of the new National Curriculum
beginning in September 2014. But it’s
also 100 years since World War One began which leads to the question: Who won
the History wars?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">The answer is no one. If we
consider what the curriculum is due to contain from September it is clear that
periodisation is not a key issue but chronology is – and overall the previously
sacred concept of causation is downplayed. This bland chronology – ‘pick and
mix’ more than pub quiz - is supposedly more academic than the New Labour
version. It certainly seems to suit modern conservatism and there is no
question that dates are important. However, there is no change to the idea of
1066 constituting the significant milestone in British national history – despite a ‘beefier’ approach to the ancients
in primary schools. So it is not really that distinctive from the New Labour
version it replaces. Under New Labour
the history curriculum focus switched to ‘diversity’ based on emphasising
‘change’ as well as continuity. The concept of ‘significance’ was also elevated
and a little bit of empathy became a lot of lesson planning. In short, the
conceptual ground was already laid for the disruption of intellectual coherence
over the nature of the past. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">So what is the issue if there is
not that much real change in curriculum content, and certainly not as much as
the media discussion implies? Superficially, there does seem to be some kind of
developing split between the conservative ‘chronologists’ and the New Labour
‘understanders’. Undoubtedly, the level of attention in the press and media has
contributed to the promising signs of ‘real debate’ that many historians and
the public are said to crave and wear as a badge of their integrity. But is this factionalism over positions
really so deep? For one thing, Gove has responded to the claims that his
initial proposal were too much ‘little England’. And the critics – especially
history teachers - seem satisfied. Nevertheless, there are technical and
intellectual limitations to this point.
The technical limitation remains the fact that the curriculum is not
statutory for all schools, given the ‘opt-out’ provisions for academies and
free schools. The intellectual limitation concerns the growing trend to
celebrate the subjective self genealogically rather than the objective past
historically. Gove has not been able to address this. As a result we have a
curriculum debate that turns on the ‘right kind’ of history (chronology or
understanding) rather than what actually happened historically and how we use
it and judge it. And how it judges us. Overall, it’s more of a political
inversion in the present than a historical exploration of the past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">This may well suit those who like a
good argument, many of them the historians in the first paragraph above, but it
is of questionable educational value. If we consider the recent and ongoing
focus on World War One as a living example of the past this becomes clearer.
Relevant debates have often been more about the correct interpretation of the
war rather than why it happened. Although causation always lurks underneath
such events for the discerning mind of the students we should be trying to
reach, the most striking feature of the current series of commemorative events
has been their drive to understand and empathise rather than explain. Thus, we
have the frankly ridiculous scenario where people in all walks of life
appear openly grateful that the there
are four years of time to commemorate the war. They think we have plenty of time
to get all the various types of
communities represented in order to cover all their perspectives. One has the
feeling that if the whole war itself could be fought again in front of their
eyes they would only then be truly satisfied that history has been served. This mimetic barbarism certainly has its
place, but not in education for thinking students. This chronological understanding, to bring
the two curricular themes of the two political poles together, is not the
history today’s students need. Why?
Because they are capable of more, and will ask more of their minds - if not
their teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">Those who want to teach history to
more purpose than such superficial impressionism are necessarily forced to
consider causation as opposed to ‘trends over time’ in developing student
understanding. But this breaks the current consensual approach to the subject
that ultimately represents the political society we currently have in place: an
all-class alliance for the intellectual narcissist that wants a history of the
self more than the world. Certainly this is the pick and mix implication of the
current discussion. Where is the sense of what we actually have to know?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">Strangely, the politicians at the
centre of the discussion seem to have forgotten how to use history dynamically
to serve their own ends. Curricular contortions seem to trump the actual
historical events we are supposed to be finding out about. The advanced
technocrat will note that most children will still not have more than 1 hour a week to study the subject and will still
not study it beyond Key Stage 3 (year 9).
All in all, it just adds up to the end of education as a political
outlook, such is the weak level of historical illumination on offer. Perhaps
this explains the historical rise of Gove more than his educational
vision. The lack of a political
articulation of what it means to be educated means that the curriculum debate
is missing a very big trick, and risks perpetuating the conditions for our own
intellectual stasis. Instead, the rise in suffering and empathy risks creating
a-historical historians who say anything is permitted and fail to distinguish
properly between past and present. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">What has caused the fossilisation
to be presented as its opposite? Two factors stand out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;">First, a lack of an imaginative (as
opposed to merely imitative) classical outlook in most modern historians means
they ape modern methodologists and pedagogues – and rarely illuminate the past
itself as a dynamic contest of ruling sets of ideas. Who has compared the slaughter
of World War One to the Peloponnesian War for what it tells us about human
nature – and hubris? No-one. Instead, we continue to get the poets version of
the war generalised across the country, because it suits our generation to talk
about mindless slaughter not what violence can tell us about deeper themes or
why men really fought each other. World
War One as our very own Noble Lie or Foundation Myth – certainly more important
than Hastings in the contemporary mindset.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">Second, there is an evident disconnect
between public memory and private study: schools are looking for connection and
belonging not causes – leading to more of the same old descriptive teaching to
the middle classes masquerading as explanation for the masses. If we consider
another major historical event, the Renaissance, it becomes clear what this
means. The astonishing Renaissance –
undoubtedly an elite phenomenon that itself produced the categories of ancient
and modern history - was already being ‘medievalised’ before World
War One by those who were seeking to downplay human creativity at a time of
rising social Darwinism. But after the war it further decelerated in significance – the slaughter of World War One
led to the desire to animalise the whole of humanity, arguably a trend that
continued with the Holocaust in World War Two.
A metaphorical Donatello’s <i>David</i>, the Holocaust is now close to becoming
a self-standing sculpture in the new national curriculum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">What is missing from
this approach? A sense of historical universality about ‘themes’ such as war is
preventing intellectual development. More
specificity would begin to address this issue. While personal and
empathetic interaction dominates education more broadly a distinctive history
education remains an ‘optional’ identity rather than an essential part of a
thinking person’s test of truth and the state. Reconnecting the public and private through the cultured judgement of causation remains an intellectual task for our times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">How does this moribund situation
look in the classroom? World War One again provides insights. Instead of considering the creative political
solutions to break the western front stalemate we have more and more on where
the empire’s troops came from to fight in Europe - or which technology kept the
war going. But ‘what was it like in the
trenches?’ is the standard way to keep secondary school children stuck in
intellectual no man’s land. With this approach persisting, there is little
possibility for the war or the curriculum being seen as a vehicle for studying
individual ingenuity - and folly - in a time of violence and peace. Which
average child these days knows of Churchill’s Gallipoli headspin, or Germany’s Lenin train sent to explode Russia’s
aristocracy? It is all more sorrow in a
time of patronage of the dead. Indeed, while he still lived, Harry Patch RIP
served for over 100 years in the trenches of the romantic imagination. He might
as well have been actually dead for all the intellectual respect he was given
in that time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">The current history curriculum may
or may not be a vehicle to break this intellectual stalemate, but in truth it
does not really matter. Until we have teachers not asking students ‘Should we
have fought, kids?’ but students asking teachers ‘It happened. Why, sir?’ we
will have the curriculum we deserve. That is, a curriculum that, like the
mythical Ofsted cyclops, which seems to dominate the teaching and learning landscape.
Is this just a lame duck more than a Trojan Horse for our minds to fool the
enemies of our own deception? The lame
duck just moralises the world of the past in the ‘glorious dead’, the Trojan
horse – did it really exist? - re-explains it because it shows some of the dead
were truly alive. So we do need ancient Thucidydes morality as well as Evan's modern</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;"> thinking skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">So what’s missing overall? A debate
about the past and the curriculum that emphasises objective judgment of the
past rather than subjective experience of what it was to be the past. A sense
that the state through the curriculum should educate children to stand on their
own feet intellectually and make their own judgements - without the state
holding their hands to do it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 107%;">The current curriculum debate appears
technically dynamic and to engage with how we approach the past. However, the underlying
issue is our moral attitude to ourselves, historically. Ironically, only by
genuinely isolating and studying the past specifically will we realise the
uniqueness of our current discussion. And possibly educate ourselves in the
process. This is about ourselves more than our curriculum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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curriculum see here:
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Kevin Rooney will also be discussing this issue at a forthcoming
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