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…
New vlog on collaborating with archives for the SESC Key Stage 3 school resource packs
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…
Launch of SESC Key Stage 3 school resource packs
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…
The ‘multicultural zoo’ in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
This blog was originally written by former SESC Research Associate and continuing SESC collaborator Dr Laura Carter, for the LARCA Gender and Sexuality Studies research group blog at the Université…
SESC School Resource Packs: work-in-progress update #2
Since August 2020, the SESC team have been working with four secondary school history teacher consultants to create Key Stage 3 School Resource Packs based on our archival research. While…
Work-in-progress update on SESC School Resource Packs
In August, the SESC team began to work with four secondary school history teacher consultants to make Key Stage 3 School Resource Packs based on our archival research. These School Resource Packs will all focus on one main research question
Homework: what can it teach us?
Love it or loathe it, homework is, and has long been, an important part of secondary education. This year’s nationwide school closures have meant that children were (and in some cases are still) being taught
SESC School Resource Packs
Over the next few months, SESC will be working with four secondary school history teacher consultants to make Key Stage 3 school resource packs based on our archival research. For those who might be unfamiliar with the project, SESC’s research
Review of Laura Tisdall, ‘A Progressive Education? How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh schools’ (Manchester University Press, 2019)
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.…
Best Days? Panorama, 21st March 1977
By Chris Jeppesen Since writing this post, Chris has also participated in an episode of 'Archive on 4' on BBC Radio 4, discussing the 1977 documentary and its fallout. You…