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The following are
articles by the Medieval Education team that have been published in
various media
The
Fall of Rome
This is
an mp3 of our director, Michael Warby, talking on Radio National
Counterpoint on a Monday Night. During the programme he was
assessing the latest research in to the Fall of Rome, whether it
occurred as an abrupt change or a gradual slide into economic and
social decline.
Click here to download
this recording.
Our
Hunter Gatherer Past
This is
a transcript of our director, Michael Warby, talking on Radio
National Counterpoint on Monday nights about the genetic origins of
our species, and the effect that our hunter-gatherer origins has on
us today.
Click here to
download this transcript.
Multi-sensory
Learning
This is
a paper by our director, Nigel Davies, of how teaching with a good
mix of different sensory modalities increases the amount learnt by
all students, not just those who had have been attentive
regardless.
Click here to
download this paper.
Short and to the
Point!
This
download is the text of the our most recent article on interactive
and multi-sensory learning, by director Nigel Davies: which was
published in the History Teachers Association of Victoria's
Agora magazine.
It is a
discussion of the most effective ways to use video clips in
classroom teaching. Teachers are invited to try some of these
techniques for themselves.
Californian School
of History
This
podcast address is from one of the recent Counterpoint talks (on
Radio National), by our director Michael Warby.
It is a
discussion of the pro's and cons of the recent Californian School
of history, and it's approach to the rise of 'the West', as
compared to some more standard viewpoints.
www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/feeds/cpt_20060828.mp3
This
article is from the Kindermusik Educator's Association of Australia
Conference, by director Michelle Spencer.
It is on
Early Child learning patterns and development.
This
article is from the Victorian Orff-Schulwerk Association's Early
Childhood Conference of the Performing Arts 2006.
It is
also by director Nigel Davies, and discusses the effects of
multi-sensory learning on the educational environment. | 