EDU-10067 - Module Specification
School of Social, Political and Global Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2020/21

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2020/21

This module introduces you to aspects of the history of schooling in Britain from c.1870 to 1944. The module covers 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.
Lectures include topics such as: Victorian Public Schools; Schools and Nation Building; Gender and Schooling 1900-1939; and Secondary Education for All?

&·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.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment