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The following
are some of the articles by the Medieval Education directors that
have been published in various media
Nigel Davies
has a blog on Historical Issues: Rethinking
History.
Michael Warby
has a blog on history, book reviews, and other issues:Thinking Out
Aloud.
Michelle
Spencer has a blog on education, brain development, and other
issues: Opinionated Childless
Woman.
The Morality of
Commerce
On Wednesday 6 December 2009,
our director Michael Warby was one of the two launchers of Richard
Morgan’s book Lessons From The Global Financial Crisis: The
Relevance Of Adam Smith On Morality And Free Markets. The
following is his speech, except that the section in [] was not
delivered at the event to save time.
The full speech was published
in the April 2010 issue of Quadrant.
Click here to download.
Interactive White-boards for
Technophobes
This is a short printout of a
paper presented by director Nigel Davies to the History Teachers
Association National Conference in 2009.
Click here to
download.
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, published in Agora. It
discusses 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!(click
here)
This download
is the text of an 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.
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