Tag Archives: displays
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
Going graphic in Curriculum Resources
A post from Elizabeth & Antony – your Curriculum Resources contacts A useful feature of Who next…? : a guide to children’s authors (see previous post) is the section on graphic novels. Once shunned, graphic novels have now become acceptable … Continue reading
Conflict and children’s books display
By our guest blogger, Beverley. A recent visit to the Imperial War Museum (IWM) was the inspiration for the current display in the library ‘Conflict and Children’s Books’. The IWM’s exhibition entitled ‘Once Upon a Wartime’ concentrated on five books … Continue reading
LGBT resource guide now available
The positive response to Sean’s “Queering the school” display inspired us to put together a resource guide covering material available in the IOE library and archive, and pointers to where you can find relevant resources elsewhere If you’re interested, you can pick it up in … Continue reading
‘Queering the School’ display
We are pleased to present our new library display, called ‘Queering the School: challenging homophobia and interrogating heteronormativity in our schools’. This display deals with homophobia, which since the repeal of Section 28 in 2003, many in the teaching profession still find … Continue reading
Dancing in the Library
by Karen Jacobs Don’t know an entrechat from a grand jeté? Never heard of a time-step or contemplated wearing leg-warmers? If you’ve never have any dance training or even if you have some experience, teaching dance in schools can appear … Continue reading
IOE International Education and Culture Week
We hope you’ll be able to take part in some of the many activities during International Education and Culture Week from 23 – 27 May. As part of the exciting, wide world of education, we have focused a library display … Continue reading
New library display – brush up on your Shakespeare!
From our guest blogger, Beverley: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is commonly agreed to have been born and died on April 23rd. The current display on level 4 of the library tries to show the breadth of the range of materials relating … Continue reading
Taking care of our stock
We have a new display in the library to highlight some of the damage that occurs to our books. Obviously, with books passing through so many hands a little light wear-and-tear is to be expected, but from time to time … Continue reading
Charles Darwin display
From our guest blogger, Elizabeth Did you know that Charles Darwin was mad on worms? He brought them into the house and had his wife play the piano to them to see if they responded to music, he shouted at … Continue reading