Opinion
We don’t need more teaching to the test
“It’s a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Albert Einstein was voicing concern about equipping society to meet the challenges of the future. So should we. Like fictional headmaster Thomas Gradgrind and education secretary Michael Gove, we tend to get rather hooked on what Charles Dickens’s Hard Times refers to as facts, facts and “nothing …
Dull history will not inspire learning
The draft of the reviewed national curriculum for England has finally been announced by the Department for Education. If implemented, these changes will impact negatively on museum education and history teaching generally, especially affecting younger learners. The emphasis of the new history syllabus is clear – a movement away from learning about people and how …
