Seminar series
Forthcoming History of Education seminars to include contributions by Hilary Perraton and Dan Weinbren in Spring and Summer 2011. Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.30pm
Autumn Term 2010
30 September Professor Richard Aldrich (Emeritus Professor of History of Education, Institute of Education)
Evolution and education
This seminar takes place in the Nunn Hall, Institute of Education. It will be followed by a reception at the Institute of Education.
4 November Dr Georgina Brewis (Institute for Volunteering Research and Visiting Research Affiliate, Institute of Education)
Social service, social study and social action: models of volunteering by university students in 20th century England
This seminar takes place in G34 (South Block, Ground Floor).
2 December Dr Maria Cristina Soares de Gouvea (Federal University of Minos Gerais, Brazil)
Primary education and the construction of citizenship in Brazil, 1870-1930
This seminar takes place in G35 (South Block, Ground Floor).
Spring Term 2011
3 February Professor Clyde Chitty (Visiting Professor, Institute of Education)
Theories of race, class and intelligence: the legacy of the eugenic vision of Francis Galton
This seminar takes place in G34 (South Block, Ground Floor).
3 March Dr Hilary Perraton (Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education)
Overseas students in British universities 1900-2010: practice without policy
This seminar takes place in G34 (South Block, Ground Floor).
Summer Term 2011
5 May Dr Dan Weinbren (Open University)
Has an open university always been an oxymoron? Openness and the Open University, 1969-2009
This seminar takes place in G34 (South Block, Ground Floor).
2 June Dr John Hardcastle (Institute of Education), and Dr Peter Medway (King’s College London)
Democratising English: changing the subject in post-war classrooms
This seminar takes place in G34 (South Block, Ground Floor).