Exploring the nationalistic political agenda of ‘traditionalism’ in education.
What are the problems with theories of ‘powerful knowledge’, and how might they apply to teaching about (and with) media and technology?
The English schools inspectors are apparently looking for schools to teach ‘cultural capital’. But what does cultural capital mean, and how is it changing?
Revisiting three key texts from sixty years ago: what do they have to say to us today?
Revisiting three key texts, published sixty years ago. What do they have to say to us today?
In light of a new biography, I revisit the policies and philosophy of the UK’s most influential education minister of recent times.
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?