OCR blog on the SESC Key Stage 3 school resource packs
Mike Goddard, History Subject Advisor at OCR, has written a blog about how the SESC school resource packs can be used in the ‘History Around Us’ (in-depth study of local…
Mike Goddard, History Subject Advisor at OCR, has written a blog about how the SESC school resource packs can be used in the ‘History Around Us’ (in-depth study of local…
Our two researchers, Chris Jeppesen and Laura Carter, talk to Jennifer Hunt from the Education Section of the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) about working with archives and…
We are delighted to announce that our school resource packs, created in collaboration with four secondary history teacher consultants and aimed at Key Stage 3 pupils and teachers, are now…
By Chris Jeppesen, Sharon Walker, and Laura Carter // Working with our colleague Sharon Walker (Faculty of Education) and supported by the University Diversity Fund, SESC ran a day-long workshop…
By Laura Carter // Laura Tisdall’s recent book is an alternative, perhaps revolutionary, history of progressive education. Progressive education is usually associated with the left, social justice, and social progress.…
By Peter Mandler // The SESC project is moving into a new phase of research. We started with representative samples of the British population from the birth-cohort studies of 1946,…
By Laura Carter // Chris Jeppesen, Peter Mandler and I have spent most of this academic year doing research in Local Authority archives for the six regional case study areas…
By Chris Jeppesen, Sharon Walker, and Laura Carter // This blog is reposted from the 'Cambridge Centre for Teaching & Learning' . It reports on a November 2019 workshop run…
By Laura Carter // In 1954 Sir James Spence and his research team at the Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary published A Thousand Families in Newcastle upon Tyne, the first volume…
By Laura Carter // In June 2019 we ran a workshop, in collaboration with Cambridge Digital Humanities’ (CDH) Learning Programme, about how historians might think about using social media as…