Recent posts
-
From Bevan to Blair? The Case for a Compulsory Modern British Paper at GCSE
15 July 2020 // 1 Comment
In a recent post I suggested five changes that could improve the current GCSE History. In this post I want to expand on one of those ideas: that all boards introduce a [...] -
Ethics and History Education
20 June 2020 // 0 Comments
Ethics is a matter of what is right and wrong, how we should act, and how things ought to be. It underpins and permeates everything we do. We can’t rise above ethics or [...] -
Five Ways to Improve the History GCSE
29 May 2020 // 0 Comments
I have said a few times on Twitter in recent months that, when the next round of GCSE reforms comes about – as they surely must – then we need to be ready with a set of [...] -
How useful are generic educational ideas?
9 March 2020 // 0 Comments
The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre once made a helpful distinction between a ‘practice’ and an ‘institution’. For MacIntyre, a practice is a social activity that [...] -
What did I mean by ‘the curriculum is the progression model’?
8 February 2020 // 1 Comment
The term ‘the curriculum is the progression model’ is increasingly thrown around today, not least because it has become part of the language of the school inspectorate. I [...]