Michael Armstrong's contribution to the development of thinking about teaching (might he have said ‘to pedagogy’?) seems better known in the USA than in England. We hope that this collection of Michael's articles for FORUM journal will make his thinking more widely available.
The resonance and integrity of this body of thought will inspire those who, as Michael himself puts it, ‘against the current of the age’ are looking ‘to discover a language that is fit for the description of learning’. And equally fit for the discussion of teaching, assessment and curriculum.
Another Way of Looking: Michael Armstrong’s writing for FORUM. Patrick Yarker.
Michael Armstrong as Teacher. Jenifer Smith.
1. CHILDREN AT WORK AND PLAY
Another Way of Looking
Impassioned Experience: notes on the art work of three young children in an American Elementary School
The Leap of Imagination: an essay in interpretation
Time and Narrative at Eight Years Old: an essay in interpretation
Telling the Story of Learning
Teaching Imagination
Book Review of Mary Jane Drummond’s Assessing Children’s Learning
Playful Words: the educational significance of children’s linguistic and literary play
2. THE GREAT TRADITION
Reconstructing Knowledge: an example
Comprehensive Education and the Reconstruction of Knowledge
‘To Value Every Child in the Moment’
Book Review of Marion Richardson’s Art and the Child
Humanism in Education
3. A VISION FOR TEACHING
Recognising Imagination: agenda for a new generation
Thinking about Children’s Learning: reflections on an enquiry
Book Review of David Hawkins’s The Informed Vision: a programme for educational reconstruction
Brian Simon and FORUM: an acknowledgement
4. AGAINST THE GRAIN
Introductory Remarks at the First Caroline Benn/Brian Simon Memorial Lecture ‘Comprehensive Schools Then, Now and in the Future: is it time to draw a line in the sand?’, given by Tim Brighouse
Editorial. The Cambridge Primary Review
Introductory Remarks at the Third Brian Simon Memorial Lecture ‘Legacies, Policies and Prospects: one year on from the Cambridge Primary Review’, given by Robin Alexander
Education as Reconstruction: another way of looking at primary education. The Brian Simon Memorial Lecture 2012
Popular Education and the National Curriculum: a speech delivered at the FORUM conference ‘Unite for Education’ on Saturday 19th March 1988
