Revisiting three key texts from sixty years ago: what do they have to say to us today?
Category Archives: Education
Raymond Williams on culture and education 1: ‘Culture and Society 1780-1950’
Revisiting three key texts, published sixty years ago. What do they have to say to us today?
Learning jazz – an amateur view
Some personal reflections on informal learning and everyday creativity, based on my own experience of learning jazz
Rewriting education: the legacy of Michael Gove
In light of a new biography, I revisit the policies and philosophy of the UK’s most influential education minister of recent times.
Media in English – reasons to be cheerful?
As media education has effectively disappeared from the government’s prescriptions for English teaching, what are the prospects for the future? An interview with two experts in the field, Jenny Grahame and Steve Connolly.
Changing English – Disappearing Media
Media education has been eradicated from the English (mother tongue language and literature) curriculum in England. Why has this happened, and what consequences will it have?
Ticking the boxes: what’s wrong with set texts
In the wake of government reforms, it’s now examiners who choose the texts that UK media students will study – not their teachers, or students themselves. What are the consequences for teaching and learning?
