Section One:
The historical
context
Education focus Purchasers BESA
Period and other influences Resources in schools of resources members
1930s to Selective education Wooden sloped desks with inkwells Ministry of Education 76
1950s Radio programmes for schools
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members
The War Music and Movement in 1938
Wall posters (e.g. maps of British Isles
or Empire) 125
Blackboard and chalk members
Manipulatives used natural resources, in 1949
e.g. shells for counting
Children’s story books (very few
illustrations)
Standard text books
1960s Piaget
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focus on New manipulative resources using Schools have no money 145
‘concrete learning’ plastic such as Lego, measuring jugs, of their own. Purchases members
beads, counters have to be requisitioned in 1960
Open-plan school designs Maths resources like Cuisenaire rods, from the local authority.
Dienes blocks Local authority purchases
Learning through play TV programmes for schools only from approved
First phonics reading scheme
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Initial suppliers. Mainly a few big
Child-centred approaches Teaching Alphabet (ITA) contractors supplying a
to learning Reading and numeracy schemes wide range of resources.
If a school requests an
unapproved item a
substitute will be
supplied.
1970s Ongoing move from formal Higher quality resources New boundaries create 175
teaching to group work Wide range of new resources being opportunities for new members
developed for schools using range suppliers to become in 1970
Local authority boundary of media approved.
changes
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reduces the Changing format of classrooms
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Dominance of contractors
number of local authorities tables not desks supporting group starts to be broken down
work, more furniture designed and schools buying from
SEN
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Warnock Report specifically for schools wider range of
Many resources being created developers/publishers.
through teacher centre networks
such as ILEA and other local
networks
Wide range of supplemental materials
and SEN resources to support the
non specialist SENCOs
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