Module: EDU4104-20 Educational History and Heritage

Level: 4

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Eleanor West

Module Tutor Contact Details: e.west@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module provides an introduction to the history and heritage of education (including aspects of schooling, early years, post-compulsory and higher education). It focuses in particular on equipping students with the forms of knowledge and reasoning that will enable them to locate educational change in a historical context. Students will experience the educational heritage of Bath and the surrounding area, fostering critical engagement with developments in educational institutions, systems and practice over time. Students will enjoy three site visits that will lead to a journal blog contribution on the historical context of education, and will undertake a project throughout the module that will explore the educational heritage of the City of Bath and surrounding area, relating this to wider trends in educational history.

2.Outline syllabus

Approaches to the history and politics of education

Educational heritage – Bath in time

History and heritage in the curriculum

Major reviews of education and key acts of parliament

Historical approaches to understand current educational contexts

History of educational institutions

History of higher and technical education

Why no pedagogy in England?

Living educational history – Victorian education

Education in the different nations of the U.K.

Creative approaches to history and heritage

Educational site visits

Site, document, artefact and archive analysis

3.Teaching and learning activities

Visit to Bath Spa University archives

Visit to historical educational sites in Bath World Heritage Site

Visit to Radstock Museum or other Victorian school

http://www.victorianschool.co.uk/other_schools.html

Video and audio material

Lectures

Seminars

Workshops

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description: Learning Log (1000 words)

• % Weighting: 50%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: CW

• Description: Project report (3000 words)

• % Weighting: 50%