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  From Bevan to Blair? The Case for a Compulsory Modern British Paper at GCSE

  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 [...]
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  Ethics and History Education

  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 [...]
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  Five Ways to Improve the History GCSE

  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 [...]
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  How useful are generic educational ideas?

  The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre once made a helpful distinction between a ‘practice’ and an ‘institution’. For MacIntyre, a practice is a social activity that [...]
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  What did I mean by ‘the curriculum is the progression model’?

  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 [...]