Category Archives: Library
Focus on DERA (Digital Education Research Archive): Grammar Schools
The IOE Library has always collected documents published by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children, and families. Today, the Official Publications Collection here at the Library is the largest of our special collections and … Continue reading
Posted in Library, Library and Archives, Official Publications
Tagged 11+ exam, 1976 Education Act, Academies, Academies Act 2010, circular 10/65, Comprehensive Schools, DERA, Digital Education Research Archive, Education Act 1944, Grammar Schools, Secondary Modern Schools, Secondary Technical Schools, Tripartite System, Weald of Kent Grammar School
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Spotlight on the NUT donation:“Miss, the rabbit ate the ‘floating ‘apple! The case against SATs. A Report on the 1991 Key Stage 1 SATs by the National Union of Teachers.”
Last winter we received a wonderful donation from the National Union of Teachers (NUT), which included 380 pamphlet boxes containing material published by the NUT itself and many other organisations operating in the areas of education, children and families. Over … Continue reading
Music education in feature films
Music’s place on the school curriculum can be uncertain. However it is a subject which can inspire strong passions in teachers and pupils. This is portrayed in several DVDs in the Education in Literature Collection. Music of the Heart (1999) … Continue reading
Posted in Education in Literature Collection, Library, Library and Archives
Tagged Blue and Gold Marching Machine, Britten, choirs, choral music, David Bowie, Drama teachers, drumming, DVDs, education, England, feature films, France, French, Handel, Harlem, jazz, music, music teachers, New York High School for the Performing Arts, North Carolina A & T State University, Opus 118, orchestral music, pupils, Roberta Guaspari, Rock music, schools, Tallis, teenage musical, teenagers, The Tempest, trumpet, USA, violin, Wes Craven
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Fictional favourite
I studied History at school until A’ Level and am still interested in the way in which is taught. Upon recently rereading one of my favourite books in the Education in Literature Collection, To serve them all my days by … Continue reading
Posted in Education in Literature Collection, Library, Library and Archives, Special Collections
Tagged 1914-1918, authors, BBC TV, Boarding Schools, collections, Devon, dramatists, England, history, hsistory teachers, male teachers, novelists, novels, private schools, R. F. Delderfield, schools in TV series, shell-shock, social history, teaching, Television, West Buckland School, West Country, World War
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Changes in the library this summer
Exciting changes are underway so here are a list of them with some key dates: 26 July – Extra study spaces We’ve just had 5 individual study pods and new student workstations installed on L3 (see photos below). When we’ve … Continue reading
Don’t judge a collection by its title
You could potentially be missing out on a great read or an entertaining DVD if you find the name ‘Education in Literature Collection’ off putting. The criteria for inclusion in the Collection is ‘novels, poetry, plays and DVDs about the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, Alan Bennett, America, biographies, Boarding Schools, Britain, crime, DVDs, fiction, girls, Grammar Schools, India, John Carey, laughter, LGBT, novels, Oxford University, plays, poetry, Science Fiction, South Africa, special collections, Yemen
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Favourite subjects versus relevant curriculum?
When I glanced through one of our new acquisitions – a book which analyses the success of Japan’s educational system – a list of pupils’ favourite subjects struck me. Both elementary and middle school students had voiced a preference for … Continue reading
May Madness
Amongst the May additions to the Education in Literature Collection are several classic novels, interesting biographies and even a novel that can be described as a blend of satire and horror. The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Alain-Fournier … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, biography, Catholic, convent school, Darjeeling, female academics, feminist, Galway, Great Depression, happy ending, horror, husband, intrigue, Italy, learning, memoir, mystery, novel, Oxford University, relationship, satire, Scotland, sisters, Tipperary, twin, University College Reading
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Read Aloud in the UCL IOE Library for World Book Day 2015
On Thursday 23 April a group of staff from across the Institute (along with a colleague from UCL) came together in the Library to mark World Book Night with a celebration of ‘Reading aloud and listening to others read’. … Continue reading
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Tagged literacy, reading, Reading Agency, reading aloud, reading for pleasure, World Book Night
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