Reflections on The Importance of Teaching: Citizenship is Dead. Long Live History?
The latest EF podcast is available for download now. Professor Gary McCulloch, author of The Struggle for the History of Education, assesses the future of history teaching in schools with Education Forum Member Mark Taylor.
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Sunday, 20 February 2011
Thursday, 27 January 2011
February Education Forum
Citizenship is dead. Long live history?
In the second of a series of discussions focused on the Coalition's new white paper, the speaker will be Professor Gary McCulloch, Brian Simon Professor of History of Education at the Institute of Education, London.
Education Secretary Michael Gove has recently announced a review of the curriculum. In relation to history, he has stressed the importance of both facts and historical figures. ‘One of the problems that we have at the moment’, Gove has argued, ‘is that in the history curriculum we only have two names.’
However, some feel that Gove has already started to qualify his commitment to the discipline. In particular, they refer to his proposed English Baccalaureate, for which students are only required to sit exams in Geography or History at 16.
So is History teaching in schools in crisis? If it is, how should we characterise this crisis? More positively, why do we teach History? Should it be mandatory for all students up to 16? Can it and should it transmit values? And, most fundamentally of all, what history should be taught?
February 14th 2011 at 7 PM in the Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 3AT
In the second of a series of discussions focused on the Coalition's new white paper, the speaker will be Professor Gary McCulloch, Brian Simon Professor of History of Education at the Institute of Education, London.
Education Secretary Michael Gove has recently announced a review of the curriculum. In relation to history, he has stressed the importance of both facts and historical figures. ‘One of the problems that we have at the moment’, Gove has argued, ‘is that in the history curriculum we only have two names.’
However, some feel that Gove has already started to qualify his commitment to the discipline. In particular, they refer to his proposed English Baccalaureate, for which students are only required to sit exams in Geography or History at 16.
So is History teaching in schools in crisis? If it is, how should we characterise this crisis? More positively, why do we teach History? Should it be mandatory for all students up to 16? Can it and should it transmit values? And, most fundamentally of all, what history should be taught?
February 14th 2011 at 7 PM in the Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 3AT
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Education Forum Podcast No. 18
Reflections on The Importance of Teaching: All Quiet on the Phonics Front?
The latest EF podcast is available for download now. Tom Burkard, author of School Quangos: A Blueprint for Abolition and Reform and Inside the Secret Garden: The Progressive Decay of Liberal Education, reflects on the importance of phonics and the politicisation of reading instruction.
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The latest EF podcast is available for download now. Tom Burkard, author of School Quangos: A Blueprint for Abolition and Reform and Inside the Secret Garden: The Progressive Decay of Liberal Education, reflects on the importance of phonics and the politicisation of reading instruction.
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Friday, 17 December 2010
Education Forum Podcast No. 17
Education Forum Podcast No. 17
Why isn’t education educating?
The latest EF podcast is available for download now. Frank Furedi, author of Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating reflects on educational developments and opportunities since the formation of the UK Coalition government.
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Why isn’t education educating?
The latest EF podcast is available for download now. Frank Furedi, author of Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating reflects on educational developments and opportunities since the formation of the UK Coalition government.
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Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Education Forum Podcast No. 16
Education Forum Podcast No. 16
Why are FE and HE students revolting?
The sixteenth EF Podcast is available for download now. Listen to Education Forum members Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, Denis Hayes, Shirley Lawes, Toby Marshall and David Perks discuss the proposed increase in university student tuition fees, as well as the withdrawal of funding from non science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) degrees and the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).
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Why are FE and HE students revolting?
The sixteenth EF Podcast is available for download now. Listen to Education Forum members Alka Sehgal Cuthbert, Denis Hayes, Shirley Lawes, Toby Marshall and David Perks discuss the proposed increase in university student tuition fees, as well as the withdrawal of funding from non science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) degrees and the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).
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Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Forthcoming January Education Forum
All Quiet on the Phonics Front?
The first of a series of discussions on the Coalition’s white paper The Importance of Teaching.
The next Education Forum will be held on January 17th 2010 at 7 PM in the Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 3AT
The speaker will be Tom Burkard, expert in reading instruction and author of many publications, including Inside the Secret Garden: The Progressive Decay of Liberal Education and School Quangos: A Blueprint for Abolition and Reform.
Is the battle over reading instruction now over? Is the evidence for the effectiveness of systematic synthetic phonics as compelling as is claimed? If it is, why have results not improved, in spite of the widespread adoption of phonics in schools? Is the issue how programmes based on this method are developed? Should they be devised by teachers, or by government? And is there a danger that teachers will teach to the new mandatory phonics test? If they do, will this result in the exclusion of other approaches that teachers see as valuable?
The first of a series of discussions on the Coalition’s white paper The Importance of Teaching.
The next Education Forum will be held on January 17th 2010 at 7 PM in the Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 3AT
The speaker will be Tom Burkard, expert in reading instruction and author of many publications, including Inside the Secret Garden: The Progressive Decay of Liberal Education and School Quangos: A Blueprint for Abolition and Reform.
Is the battle over reading instruction now over? Is the evidence for the effectiveness of systematic synthetic phonics as compelling as is claimed? If it is, why have results not improved, in spite of the widespread adoption of phonics in schools? Is the issue how programmes based on this method are developed? Should they be devised by teachers, or by government? And is there a danger that teachers will teach to the new mandatory phonics test? If they do, will this result in the exclusion of other approaches that teachers see as valuable?
Sunday, 5 December 2010
An updated PDF version of the Education Forum Battle in Print Special is now available
You may have heard that Education Secretary Michael Gove intends to bring back Subject Based Education and to ensure that the next generation learns our "our island story." Sounds good? Think again.
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