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      The Worlds of UCL: teaching, learning and institutional histories

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          This article discusses an undergraduate module which introduces students to the study of the history of education through the lens of our own institutions – UCL (University College London, UK), founded in 1826, and the IOE (Institute of Education, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society), founded in 1902. The module critically examines the close, but often hidden, connections between British education and empire, asking what impact these imperial legacies have today. After outlining the module’s origins and relationship with the history of UCL and the IOE, the article sets its creation in the wider context of initiatives that seek to critique and reimagine institutional histories within higher education for a variety of purposes. The article also explores the developing role of the IOE Archives team in teaching, and explores how academics and archivists work together to teach institutional histories, and how this work can prompt change.

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              Education, decolonisation and international development at the Institute of Education (London): a historical analysis

              In this article, we review the process of building relationships around education and international development at IOE (Institute of Education), UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society (University College London, UK). The analysis looks at how hierarchies linked to colonialism were inscribed in initial structures, and unevenly and disparately contested by students, staff and a range of interlocutors around the world over one hundred years. The article considers how this history shapes practice in the present and perspectives on the future. In describing and reflecting on processes for change, the article considers some of the questioning, discussion and new forms of relationship that are emerging as part of trying to develop an orientation away from a colonial past. Efforts to decolonise education have raised questions and actions associated with reimagining practice. We reflect on what we have learned and unlearned from our efforts to promote decolonial, socially just alternatives.
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                Journal
                LRE
                London Review of Education
                Lond. Rev. Educ.
                UCL Press
                1474-8479
                08 February 2023
                February 2023
                : 21
                : 1
                : 12
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Professor of Social History, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, London, UK
                [2 ]Archivist, LCCOS, UCL, London, UK
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4273-7724
                Article
                LRE-21-12
                10.14324/LRE.21.1.12
                63dfa60e-28ed-47f7-adcd-cc8440ee5be0
                © 2023, Georgina Brewis and Kathryn Hannan.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.21.1.12.

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                : 28 September 2022
                : 22 December 2022
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                Pages: 12
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                Brewis, G. and Hannan, K. (2023) ‘The Worlds of UCL: teaching, learning and institutional histories’. London Review of Education, 21 (1), 12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.21.1.12.

                Education,Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Educational research & Statistics,General education
                special collections,empire,higher education,history,objects,institutions,archives,learning,students

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