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Hesse’s romantic and sinister tale of boarding school life
Merciless cramming according to an obsolete curriculum… constant fighting and bullying at a boys’ boarding school… pressure from peers and pressure from parents… vast social differences and social mobility through achievement… ardent friendship and careless betrayal… overpowering desire and fear … Continue reading
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Tagged Education in Literature Collection, fiction, Hesse, history of education, literature, novels, World Book Night
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Focus on Special Collections: Jerome Bruner’s MACOS Curriculum Project
I consider myself very fortunate to be able to collaborate with some of the most wonderful people in the world – not just researchers but also the librarians who I work with everyday. My most recent collaboration has been with … Continue reading
A glimpse into The Historical Textbooks Collection
One of the largest of the Special Collections at the UCL Institute of Education’s Newsam Library is the Historical Textbooks Collection. It has approximately 88,000 textbooks and classroom teaching resources dating from the 1890s onwards, when state-funded education was introduced … Continue reading
Ch-ch-ch-changes
Changes to accessing information –whether it be your bank or a library database—can be downright annoying, especially when you’ve just acclimatised yourself to the old access route. Post-merger with UCL, we are in a phase of changes. While a great … Continue reading
Information Literacy Training from the Newsam Library
In 2005, UNESCO proclaimed, Information literacy and lifelong learning are the beacons of the Information Society, illuminating the courses to development, prosperity and freedom.Information Literacy lies at the core of lifelong learning. It empowers people in all walks of life … Continue reading
BBC archives for teaching and research
The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) is currently working with Jisc and the BBC to establish which programmes and other items (e.g. documentation, photographs and sheet music) from the BBC archives would be of greatest value for the … Continue reading
Stories of conflict: Curriculum Resources display
Whilst selecting books to include in the current Conflict in Children’s Literature display I was struck by the prevalence of works by one author. The writer in question is Michael Morpurgo and I could find books by him to cover … Continue reading
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Tagged children, children's books, conflict, Curriculum Resources, display
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BBC’s Knowledge & Learning website
Arriving over the coming months is a new website from the BBC to support learning and teaching. Building on the already invaluable material available for classroom use, the refreshed site, currently in beta, will bring together factual and learning content … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, audiovisual resources, BBC, school resources, Television, video
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U.S. Government Shutdown affects ERIC
If you’re searching on ERIC (the American database published by ‘Education Research Information Centre’, a U.S. government funded initiative), you may notice that your search results are smaller in number than on previous occasions. This is because of the current … Continue reading
European Day of Languages, Thursday 26th September
You might have seen an enticing array of language resources on the display shelves near the Level Four Library stairs. They include student textbooks, teacher’s books, audio CDs, DVDs and dual-language picture books. These are to give a flavour of … Continue reading
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Tagged Curriculum Resources, displays, language studies, MFL, textbooks
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