History of Education Society UK Podcast

This month we were joined by Professor Gary McCulloch and Dr. Heather Ellis to talk about the new book series, A Cultural History of Education , which is out now from Bloomsbury. Spanning thousands of years, from antiquity to present day, this ambitious new series takes a thematic approach to the cultural history of education. It traces themes such as church, religion and morality; family, communi...

For this month's episode we were joined by Carmen Flury and Dr. Rosalía Guerrero to talk about their research into computer education in Europe, as part of the project 'Education and the European Digital Agenda: Switzerland, Germany and Sweden after 1970', based at the University of Zurich. We explore how computer education emerged in Sweden and East Germany, and the conditions that...

This month we spoke to Nicholas K. Johnson from the Center for German-American Educational History at the University of Münster about a new edited volume, Show, Don't Tell. Education and historical representations on stage and screen in Germany and the USA . Our wide-ranging discussion touches on the definitions and uses of public history; transatlantic developments in the field; the relation...

To kick off 2021 we're joined by Dr. Tamson Pietsch and Dr. Joel Barnes to talk about their work on the connections--and tensions--between the fields of the history of knowledge and the history of education. We discuss how the focus and methods of the history of knowledge can help us think through how knowledge is produced and legitimated; understand the role of institutions; and develop our...

To launch the History of Education Society UK's brand new podcast during this year's virtual conference, we spoke to Professor Jane Martin about the 150th anniversary of the 1870 Education Act. We talk about how and why the Act emerged; its connections to early socialist and feminist movements; the impact of the Act on working-class children and girls' education; how the Act played...