Showing posts with label History teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History teaching. Show all posts
Thursday, 7 March 2013

Gove's School History Reforms "Debated" Again

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First as farce... OK - so the original title of this post was too flippant a way of drawing your attention my thoughts on the interchange yo...
Monday, 29 October 2012

A few more thoughts on contact hours

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[ Here's another extract from my 2nd-year briefing, which I present for prospective (and indeed current) university students and their p...
Friday, 12 October 2012

Professor Grumpy's Historical Manifesto

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[ This is an edited bit of my introductory 'briefing' lecture to my new second-years yesterday.  I didn't get the feeling it wen...
Thursday, 22 September 2011

School History: A reflection

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Since I posted my last somewhat exasperated comments I thought a bit more about this.  I'm not saying that there is no purpose to straig...
Tuesday, 20 September 2011

School History: really, what is the point?

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All right, I will cheerily admit that I am not entirely averse to saying things just to provoke people, and even - sometimes, just sometime...
Monday, 10 January 2011

News from 'the siege' (or On 'Being Brought up to Speed')

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Last week I made the inaugural ‘Historian on the Edge Dumb-Ass TV-History Moment of the Week Award’. Not, you'll agree, something that w...
Thursday, 11 November 2010

The Revolution begins (in which I become involved with ‘rampaging’ student ‘protesters’ ‘fighting running battles with the police’ throughout central London … apparently)

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I went to the demonstration against the government’s education cuts in London yesterday. It was very well attended. The organisers had expec...