Educational Grief – Wasafiri 112
My essay has just been published in Wasafiri and I want to thank Darren Chetty, Angelique Golding and Nicola Rollock for asking me to write for the magazine and displaying incredible patience. It took...
View ArticleKnowing History in Schools
There is a great deal of discussion about the curriculum in schools and the work of Michael Young and his notion of ‘powerful knowledge’ and how it can enable social justice. Knowing History in Schools...
View ArticleDrinking an ocean: approaches to historical thinking
Below is the text from my track talk video (above) for the World History Project/Big History Project‘s Online Conference for Social Studies which is focused on US educators. There is an amazing line up...
View ArticleDoing the work
I’ve had a variety of conversations with teachers and schools over the last few weeks about history teaching in independent schools and the letters institutions have had from former students. Some of...
View ArticleTeaching ‘race’ and racism in English history classrooms
The events of the last week in the USA have brought tears of sorrow, anger and frustration. This has also been mirrored in the UK regarding Grenfell, the Windrush scandal and the disproportionate...
View ArticleAbsent from the curriculum
On the 4th December 2018, I was invited to take part in a panel discussion hosted by the Runnymede Trust and the Institute of Historical Research about Black and Asian British history on the school...
View ArticleEverything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author
*This is the first in a series of posts examining some of the foundational assumptions/ideas/theories used to justify recent educational debates/policy directions and despite the appearance of...
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I contain multitudes
Biblioteca Angelica, Rome I’ve be reading and thinking a lot about of Rousseau of late and pondering the ongoing representation of ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ education. My original intention in...
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Designing an Oxbridge programme
Emmanuelle, the Regent’s Park College tortoise. I recently took a group of students (mostly from my Form) to Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford so they could learn more about the application...
View ArticleIs Rousseau a traditional educator?
As an undergrad student, I was not that impressed with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The phrase, ‘man is born free but everywhere else he is in chains’ seemed too simple a rationalisation for thinking about...
View ArticleBeyond the modern obsession of ‘progressive’ and ‘traditional’ education
One puzzling aspect of the debate surrounding education on Social Media is starting with the ‘Romantic’ period and blaming Rousseau and his work Emile for the problems in our modern age. The creation...
View ArticleHow not to ‘whitewash’
The #RhodesMustFall campaign has been interesting because the main goal to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes, imperialist and benefactor, has failed. Equally interesting has been the opposition, which...
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When writing about history teaching goes very, very wrong.
The Daily Mail’s article, ‘GCSE pupils to be taught that the nation’s earliest inhabitants were Africans who were in Britain before the English‘ marshals an impressive array of commentators apparently...
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Frameworks and narratives
In our first history department meeting last week, we discussed the school’s new approach to ‘Building Learning Power’ and how we could create resources to use the language and ideas to structure...
View ArticleThe problem of a single story
Robert Peal’s article in the TES on Friday ‘History’s an adventure – don’t cut it short’ left me feeling slightly bemused. In the piece, Peal argues that current history textbooks lack an extended...
View ArticleResearch notes
I mentioned earlier this year that I was slightly frustrated by talk about educational research in schools. So I decided to do something about it and applied to do a Masters at the University of...
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Digitising Cultural Heritage
The amazing Biblioteca Angelica, Rome Last week I spent a day and a half in Rome at the Biblioteca Angelica working with Europeana on digital cultural heritage and education. The Europeana Foundation...
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Tweaks for the new academic year
R2D2 as the ‘Pomodoro’ master. Image from http://www.truffleshuffle.co.uk/store/star-wars-r2d2-kitchen-timer-p-15483.html This year, I have made a few small adjustments to my teaching. Part of it will...
View ArticleTeaching at the Wren Academy – Part 3
Today was my final day at the Wren Academy and as I left the school, I had more questions than answers. This is a good thing. After my first lesson, Ruth and I had a discussion around differentiation...
View ArticleTeaching at the Wren Academy – Part 2
As I got in the cab on my way from the Tube (I did not want to be late) this morning, the driver freely offered his opinion on the Wren: it really is an excellent school. He has no children there but...
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