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Being the 48th episode, and with one each month, this episode marks the four year anniversary for the ERRR podcast. This is a huge milestone and I’m ecstatic that we’ve made it this far!
And for this anniversary episode, it was an absolute pleasure to have Martin Robinson on to discuss his excellent book, Trivium 21C.
Martin spent twenty years teaching in state schools in London, spending time in the roles of Drama and English teacher, Head of Department, Head of Faculty, advanced skills teacher, and assistant headteacher. Martin gained national and international acclaim for the wonderful work he did with his Drama students as well as his subsequent work and writing.
At one point during that Journey, Martin decided to dive deep. Really deep. About 3000 years deep into the history of education, and really the history of thought, to try to pull together the threads of teaching and learning over time, and try to determine what lessons that could be brought forwards to the present. The framework he landed upon is the Trivium, and it’s a wonderful model that brings together many of the elements of education that have been discussed in the ERRR podcast over the past 4 years, and much more besides. It’s a model that helps us to get past false dichotomies, and understand how different instructional practices can fit together to produce an empowering overall education.
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Links/resources mentioned in the show
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- Lawton and Gordon's history of Western educational ideas. T
- Beyond the boundary by CLR. James, On cricket, and it talks about race and culture, promote a West Indian perspective, but also talks about colonialism and education, and, and things like that.
- Mortimer Adler, his book, Great Ideas
- Marshall McLuhan's book on the classical trivium,
- Dorothy L. Sayers –The lost tools of learning, and that you can find online.
- All the essays of Montaigne
- Yuval Levin's book, The Great Debate on Paine versus Burke,
- Richard Tarnis, – The Passion of the Western mind,
- The Classical Tradition, by Grafton
- David Deutsch, – The Beginnings of Infinity. A
- You talking to me? Sam Leith. On the structure of rhetoric.
- The Well-Educated Mind: A guide to classics, by Susan Wise Bauer
- Aristotle, – The art of ethic
- David Crystal’s books are great on English Grammar
- Also see Ollie's book: Cognitive Load Theory in Action, available here
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