The Fabian
Education Book Review and Reading Group/
Hidden Histories
Initiative.
This is the place where we review educational books and books we read together.
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In addition our Hidden History /Curriculum renewal initiative is an opportunity to review and share which books plays/ poetry/ lyrics /films/TV/Art /museums et al have inspired our thinking and would deepen learners' experience in school beyond the current reductive curriculum.
March 2025
Professor Brian Hudson Reviews :Magnússon, G., Phelan, A., Heimans, S. and Unsworth, R. (Eds.) (2025), Teacher Education and Its Discontents: Politics, Knowledge and Ethics (1st ed), Oxon and New York: Routledge, pp. xviii+208, ISBN 978-1-032-72750-9, pbk, £35.99.
Fabian Education Policy Group Review September 2025 Volume 1 Issue 2 (Online in advance)
At our January 2023 meeting we were joined by Nick Thomas-Symonds and discussing his recent book 'Harold Wilson- The Winner' . This session, focused entirely on Nick's capacity as an historian.
Over the last year and a half we have
discussed Andrew Adonis' biography of Ernest Bevin, Owen Jones: This Land: The Struggle for the Left and Akala's Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. Keir Starmer: The Road Ahead ( Fabian ideas No 657) Building Bridges: Lessons from Bassetlaw for the Country: Sally Gimson. Fabian ideas no 652.
Maggie Browning and Robert Lennox's Political Education in Schools: The case for Citizenship.Young Fabian pamphlet
and Brian Matthews' Redressing the balance'Fabian Society.
Please also send ideas for our Hidden History/Curriculum Renewal initiative on the google doc below
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vuf5Ub1K6omZyPf-5Hxm83H8DwJPCpwC-P3W7wuUu5w/edit
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