ArthurJChapman
@arthurjchapman.bsky.social
Prof History Ed & Head of Department Curriculum Pedagogy & Assessment @ UCL’s Institute of Education. Editor HistEd Research Journal & International Rev of HistEd. Vice-Chair OHTE SAC. FRHistS. FHA. Member HEIRNET Board. Blog: thecamelsback.org. Own views.
Ordered a copy - been meaning to read this since attending what Duncan Forbes called his ‘disinaugural’ lecture in Cambridge History Faculty in 1988/9. He told us we were all ‘barbarians’, in a lecture structured around Schiller’s arguments and quotations in four or five languages…
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Ordered a copy - been meaning to read this since attending what Duncan Forbes called his ‘disinaugural’ lecture in Cambridge History Faculty in 1988/9. He told us we were all ‘barbarians’, in a lecture structured around Schiller’s arguments and quotations in four or five languages…
November 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Great you’re back on! It was cracking event! Great to hear you share your love of literature and writing with such an enthusiastic and large audience! One day soon I really will read Watership Down - loved the film!
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Great you’re back on! It was cracking event! Great to hear you share your love of literature and writing with such an enthusiastic and large audience! One day soon I really will read Watership Down - loved the film!
Now that’s going to be a must-read! Thanks Lindsay.
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Now that’s going to be a must-read! Thanks Lindsay.
Yup. I can send her a message. Could you DM me an email?
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Yup. I can send her a message. Could you DM me an email?
Well I think there are some positive things to be said (hence my comments earlier in the thread).
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Well I think there are some positive things to be said (hence my comments earlier in the thread).
Ros Ashby, who's done superb work on evidential reasoning with kids, IMO, & whose chapter in Ian Davies (ed) Debates in History Teaching is a must-read 4 any1 thinking about sources, information, evidence, questioning & reasoning in school history, rated unseen paper's highly. That says something. 4
November 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Ros Ashby, who's done superb work on evidential reasoning with kids, IMO, & whose chapter in Ian Davies (ed) Debates in History Teaching is a must-read 4 any1 thinking about sources, information, evidence, questioning & reasoning in school history, rated unseen paper's highly. That says something. 4
... 2 questions. I thought it was a robust assessment of reasoning & claim-generating (knowledge-making) abilities and enjoyed teaching it. I used similar approaches a lot in my teaching (in schools & later in HE). An unseen paper on issues kids have contextual knowledge on could be gr8 IMO. 3
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
... 2 questions. I thought it was a robust assessment of reasoning & claim-generating (knowledge-making) abilities and enjoyed teaching it. I used similar approaches a lot in my teaching (in schools & later in HE). An unseen paper on issues kids have contextual knowledge on could be gr8 IMO. 3
...the claim that it didn't involve knowledge. Kids were given(a) a cross-referenceable) set of documents on a topic & (b) contextual information. The task was *2 build knowledge* (warranted claims, of varying degrees of certainty) by applying historical reasoning 2 (a)&(b) combined in response... 2
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
...the claim that it didn't involve knowledge. Kids were given(a) a cross-referenceable) set of documents on a topic & (b) contextual information. The task was *2 build knowledge* (warranted claims, of varying degrees of certainty) by applying historical reasoning 2 (a)&(b) combined in response... 2
Looking forward to Ali’s next post. I taught this paper when I first started teaching (on teaching practice in Norwich in 1992/3). Can’t claim any particular expertise since that was a brief experience. However, it was enough to see the flaw in one common criticism of the paper namely… 1
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Looking forward to Ali’s next post. I taught this paper when I first started teaching (on teaching practice in Norwich in 1992/3). Can’t claim any particular expertise since that was a brief experience. However, it was enough to see the flaw in one common criticism of the paper namely… 1
I used to want to text British Transport Police every time the Bozza slavered-up on the cover of The Metro (‘If you see something that doesn’t look right, text…’). Thankfully pictures of the scuzzbucket are as rare as The Metro nowadays. Small signs of progress, both…
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I used to want to text British Transport Police every time the Bozza slavered-up on the cover of The Metro (‘If you see something that doesn’t look right, text…’). Thankfully pictures of the scuzzbucket are as rare as The Metro nowadays. Small signs of progress, both…