School of Public Policy and Professional Practice  
 
 
EDU-10067 Back to the Future: issues in the history of schooling  
Co-ordinator: Mr Graeme Easdown    Room: CBA0.015, Tel:34426  
Teaching Team: Miss Tracy  Roberts, Miss Jo-Anne  Watts  
Lecture Time: See Timetable...  
Level: 1 Credits: 15 Study Hours: 150  
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Programme/Approved Electives for
Educational Studies Dual Honours (Level 1)
Educational Studies Major (Level 1)
Educational Studies Minor (Level 1)
Available as a Free Standing Elective
Yes
Barred Combinations
None
Prerequisites
None
Description

This module is intended to introduce you to aspects of the history of schooling in Britain from 1870 to 1944. The module will cover distinct topics that run through the history of this period. This includes a focus on education and inequalities of social class and gender; education and nation-building, churches and state education, education and the economy, arguments over the curriculum. A consistent theme is that of the diversity and unevenness of educational provision and the ways in which debates and policy have responded to the problems and opportunities to which such features have given rise.

The module draws on primary and secondary sources. Alongside histories of the period, you will read extracts from novels, government reports, parliamentary debates and political pamphlets. One of our reasons for doing this is to encourage you to make use of first hand evidence in your own research and inquiry.



Aims
&·to help students to develop an understanding of persistent patterns in the history of British schooling and to consider their relationships, origins and possible causes;
&·to enable students to understand the relationship between the history of schooling and wider social change;
&·to enable students to assess critically and to make use of historical and evidence.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Make sense of key developments related to the history of schooling in Britain in the period 1870-1944 will be achieved by assessments: 1,2,3;
Identify and comment on the enduring features of schooling in this period, especially in relation to socially-determined patterns of access and outcome will be achieved by assessment: 1;
Locate histories of schooling in the wider context of controversies that have surrounded educational change will be achieved by assessments: 1,2,3;
read and analyse texts in the form of policy documents, speeches, reports and novels for the purpose of communicating ideas about the history of schooling will be achieved by assessments: 1,2;
Drawing on module themes, summarise and evaluate a piece of fiction or a published monograph will be achieved by assessment: 2.
Study hours
22 contact hours;
52 hours independent study/preparation for seminars;
50 hours preparation of essay;
28 hours preparation of critique.
Description of Module Assessment
01: Essay weighted 80%
An essay of 2,500 words on module themes.
02: Review weighted 20%
Critical review 1,000 words.
Critical review of a piece of fiction (book or film) relevant to module themes.
Version: (1.06B) Updated: 03/Mar/2013

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