IOE by decade: 120 years in blogs

Throughout 2022 we are publishing monthly blogs exploring each decade of IOE’s 120-year history in the context of the education and society of the times.

2012-2022

The final installment of this IOE120 blog series draws together the the many individuals and organizations that have been a vital part of IOE’s impact and brings a view of its future in education and society.

Concrete staircase at an extreme angle against a vivid blue sky. Credit: Sarah-Jane Gregori, UCL IOE

The mission to transform education and society continues, 2012-22 and into the future

2002-2012

Educational leadership took on new importance while ‘the self-improving school system’ came into the fore, writes Dr David Godfrey.

Black male teacher speaks while raising finger. Photo: Phil Meech for UCL

A leader of leaders in a time of recognition and pressure

1992-2002

The 1990s was a decade in history when two great pillars of British social science came together – IOE, and the British birth cohort studies!

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Britain’s birth cohort studies find their home

1982-1992

Professor Peter Mortimore on how two major education players, IOE and the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) were shaped by government policy of the time and what this meant for education in the capital.

Rows of books and the staircase of the Newsam Library cutting diagonally across the frame

The parallel lives of the Institute and the ILEA

1972-1982

Professor Michael Young examines Basil Bernstein's influence on the sociology of education.

Black and white close up photo of a man wearing glasses. Credit: UCL Institute of Education Archives.

Knowledge, power and social class – a closer look at the Sociology of Education

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1962-1972

Professor Judith Suissa explores the impact of one of the Institute's founding disciplines: the philosophy of education.

Black and white photo of a ‘child-centred’ primary classroom in the 1960s with students reading books and doing activities

How philosophy of education addressed ideas and values at the heart of the debate

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1952-1962

How did we approach Empire, Commonwealth and decolonisation in the 1950s? Professor Elaine Unterhalter examines IOE's work then and now, as we 'attempt to confront and change inequalities and injustices'.

Beryl Gilroy surrounded by Beckford primary school pupils in north London in 1971

Empire, decolonisation, modernisation and dislocation

1942-1952

Professor Gary McCulloch explores how the field of education changed within and beyond IOE as the nation emerged from the Second World War.

Black and white hand drawn cartoon of a man holding a child's hand and ringing and ringing a pull doorbell. The boy's school blazer reads 'Education Act'

The Second World War and the educative society

1932-1942

Professor Gary McCulloch examines IOE’s transition from London Day Training College to the University of London Institute of Education and its further development as a centre for educational research.

Senate House with tree and London bus in foreground

Imagining the education of the future

1922-1932

Nazlin Bhimani, Research Support and Special Collections Librarian at IOE, explores the expansion of IOE in the interwar years.

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Seeking the best way to educate the 'whole child'

1912-1921

Dr Georgina Brewis looks at the impact of the First World War on the London Day Training College (as IOE was then known) and education and society across the nation.