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Our directors (and various of
our staff) regularly publish books and articles, and are sometimes
interviewed on radio on a variety of topics. The following are a
selection of these articles relevant to schools and education, all
done by the Medieval Education directors in the last few
years
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 problem of the
Euro
Director Michael Warby did a 16 minute interview on Radio
National's Counterpoint program on the issues the European Monetary
Union.
Download the broadcast here.
The Betrayal Myth (part
2)
Director Nigel Davies was
invited by Quadrant to do a 6,000 word follow up to his book review
on the 'Betrayal Myth' - see below for link.
He based this article on
the Historiographical analysis appendix of his 1993 Masters Thesis
"British Strategic Policy in teh Far East 1939- 1942: imperial
Weakness or Commonwealth Incohesion?"
Click
here for the link.
The Uses and Abuses of
Wikipedia
Director Nigel Davies did a
2,100 word article for the History Teacher's Association of
Victoria's Agora
magazine (No.4, volume 5), on
the topic of introducing students to the strengths and weaknesses
of Wikipedia as a source. Including exercises to teach students to
analyses Wikipedia articles for bias and historiographical
development.
Click here for article.
The people who fund Schools
should not be the people who regulate
them!
Director Michael Warby did a
5,000 word article on the problems of too much Australian school
funding being controlled by the same people who regulate the
schools. He drew the inevitable comparisons to the
nationalisation of bodies like British Leyland, and asked what
could be done to help schools escape over-regulation and excessive
central control.
Click here for the
link.
The 'Great Myth' of Britain's
'Great Betrayal'
Director Nigel Davies did a
2,000 word book review for Quadrant
Magazine (October 2010) on Augustine
Meaher IV's book The Road to Sinagpore: The Myth
of British Betrayal. Meaher demonstrated that
Australian political elites in the interwar period systematically
undermined Australia's defences while pretending that a far away
naval base (which they would not fund) would support a fleet (which
they would not fund), thus relieving Austrlaia of the need to plan
any local defences. When teh inevitable crisis occurred in 1942,
those same politicians quickly claimed that it was all someone
elses fault.
Click here for the
link.
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 - using
video clips in class
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 Agoramagazine.
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.
Click here for article.
Californian School of
History
This podcast address is from one
of the 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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