Simon Ross (of www.ilovehistory.co.uk) and I have been doing some revision “to-go” for today’s ipod generation. If you’re a student doing GCSE Modern World History, then you could do worse than pop over to Simon’s site and subscribe to the RSS feed.
Read more →As we have already seen, for Peter Lee “The reason for teaching history is not that it changes society, but that it changes pupils” (Lee 1991: 43). Lee’s school history “changes what see and how they see it” (Lee 1991:43) This much could be said of any form of schooling and any form...
Read more →My server was obviously so suprised at me making no posts recently that it fell down – do stay tuned though – there’s one coming… By the way, my old theme doesn’t seem to like wp. 2.01, and this one is nice, but I hate the dog. Anyone willing to offer free consultancy to...
Read more →One of the most crystalline of all the purposes of school history is that of “for its own sake”. History for its own sake calls up a vision, or spectre, of a monkish student combing through an archive, or navigating piles of books, absorbed, transcended by the study of history. In school this implies...
Read more →The grand tradition has at is heart the notion that a culture can be transmitted from one generation from the next, as a kind of patrimony. In that sense the grand tradition is essentially a culturally conservative tradition, which seeks to ensure the continuation of a dominant ideology which has at its heart a...
Read more →I have set myself the task of really thinking about and coming up with a model of what it means for learners to progress in history – more specifically what it means for them to progress in their understanding of “historical interpretations” in history. However, before the question of progression is approached, we should...
Read more →The BBC is reporting a story that “Political Correctness” is harming society in Britain. Doug Belshaw and I have been having a good natured debate about this on his blog.This is so transparent that it almost makes me laugh. I’m no post-modernist, but this is an obvious attempt to bolster dominant ideologies that...
Read more →What a totally unproductive holiday season it has been, though great fun (apart from dash to hospital with the middles). Anyhoo – owing to being prematurely aged by childrearing I’m off to bed. Might make some resolutions – but it will be tomorrow!
Read more →So, I’m planning an essay and, in the great tradition of Douglas Adams, I thought I’d test out a bit of web2.0 software at the same time. I’m building up to writing my first piece for my diploma and I’m not really sure whether I’m going to be given or agree a title with...
Read more →God bless us, every one! Damn those Dickens downloads. Ed xx
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