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Ali Messer
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Teacher Education. History. Trad music. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
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https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
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#contradancing happens in the UK too! Nicola Scott is calling @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social on Dec 13th with the awesome Contrasaurus and Dec 14th www.ashfordfolkdancers.org.uk/contra_dances with The Linda Game Band
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
maps.app.goo.gl/3fZLiFf4wfMx... visited a museum originally used by the Gestapo. Oppressive basement cells. And an exhibition about the othering of so many. We noticed many teenagers visiting perhaps as part of school visits.
December 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
First time in Cologne, and I stumble upon maps.stolpersteine.app/DE/K%C3%B6ln...
My German is very basic and I look up the word 'vershollen'. Lost. But before 'hier wohnte': lived here.
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
@helenfcarr.bsky.social presents her research. It matters that teachers know what pupils THINK they know
#HistoryEducation @htenuk.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
@htenuk.bsky.social conference today discussing the teaching of history especially linked to suffering and conflict in the present with principles from @victoriacrooks.bsky.social and @lauralondo1017.bsky.social
First session led by Rob Kanter from MMU
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Experts on my phone: I can see this from my window, but I am not sure what it is called. Do you know?
October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
www.youtube.com/live/qONEeRP... just got my copy of the book, bringing history and participatory music and dance together.
#HistoryEducation #Contradancing
September 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
September 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
September 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
September 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
#Contradance in the UK @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social on 11th October with Cis Hinkle (from Atlanta) calling
www.barndance.org
September 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@alexcummingmusic.bsky.social and Audrey Jaber play for contra with Louise Siddons @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
@sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social Box of Frogs back at the Methodist today at 2.15 for squares
August 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
July 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
June 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Next London Barndance is July 12th @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social with @lsiddons.bsky.social calling and fabulous music from WillPower #ContraDancing vm.tiktok.com/ZNdUC65aw/
June 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It might help to start with controversy elsewhere and work in? A gradient of controversy approach #HistoryEducation
June 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
What happens when the context for teaching history is itself challenging? @htenuk.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What Prof Pace found: so many constraints to overcome and yet also many strategies. These included the selection of issues, provocative resources, dialogic methods, supportive cohorts
June 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Why should we teach controversial issues? Links emerging already to discussions at previous meetings about the purposes of #HistoryEducation and the pedagogies we might need
June 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Larry Unger and Elke Baker at London Barndance with Charlie Turner calling #ContraDancing @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social
Next event @lsiddons.bsky.social with WillPower 12th July
June 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
#ContraDancing at Contrabridge with Contrasaurus and Rob Humphreys. See them @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social this summer. Dancing you can do!
June 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
#ContraDancing callers @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social this summer. With music from @alexcummingmusic.bsky.social and Audrey Jaber, Contrasaurus, Box of Frogs. sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/
May 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Did you know you can dance Irish set in Prague? And at @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social this summer with Kevin and Carol Monaghan shown here
sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/
April 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM