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| Description | Comprises handwritten notes written by Simon, mostly for talks and lectures:
1. Student School (Marxist) - notes on two sessions by Simon on 'The learning process' and 'Streaming in the context of education' February 1954
2. Biographical lecture given at Borough Road College on 'Initial Teaching and the Comprehensive School', 15 March 1955.
3. 'What is the Common Secondary School?', lecture given at Manchester, October 1955
4. 'The Comprehensive School' lecture given at London, 19 March 1955
5. 'Does the Comprehensive School involve the assassination of the Grammar School?' lecture given at Nottingham NUT Section, March 1955
6. 'Intelligence Testing' lecture given at Battersea [13] January 1955
7. Talk to Birley County Secondary School and Rainbow Forge Junior School on 'Streaming' 19 January 1955
8. 'What Chance has your Child?' talk at Cambridge 17 February 1955
9. 'The Need for a Strong C.P. [Communist Party]', 5 March (no year)
10. 'The Comprehensive School' talk for the National Association of Labour Teachers, Sheffield, March 1956
11. Flier for a talk by Simon on 'Comprehensive Education' at the Crawley and District Trades Council, 25 January 1957
12. Notes on 'The Comprehensive School: Its Place in Secondary Education' for a talk in Brighton
13. 'The Comprehensive School', text of a talk given to Rainbow Forge City Primary School Parent Teachers Association, 19 January 1955 and the Norwich Parent Teachers Association November 1955
14. Notes for a talk on Comprehensive Schools given at Colchester, 14 January 1956
15. Notes for a talk on 'Educational Psychology - Some Recent Trends in the USSR' given at Borough Road College, undated
16. 'Philosophical and Psychological Aspects of Marxism' notes for Session One at the Student School (Marxist), 1956
17. Notes for a talk on 'The Marxist Approach to Psychology; Pavlovian Psychology', given at the Essex School, April 195[5]
18. Notes for a talk on comprehensive schooling given at Wycombe, February 1956
19. Notes for a talk on 'Communist Party Policy on Higher Education' given at Nottingham University, October 1959
20. Notes for a talk on 'Education in [Britain]' given at a public meeting in Leeds October 1958
21. Typescript of a paper on 'Inside the Comprehensive School' marked by Simon '1958?'
22. Critique of Geoffrey Bantock's philosophical approach to questions of education
23. Talk on 'The Theory and Practice of the Common School' given at Leamington Spa, September 1957. Includes a comment by Simon - 'Not good meeting'
24. Notes for a speech given at Manchester 19/20 January 1958
25. Notes for a talk on May Day activities given at Long Eaton, 1 May 1958
26. Text of a talk given at the Nottingham branch of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), Grammar School Section on comprehensive schools, October 1957
27. Review of P.K. Roy's 'Selection for Secondary Education in India' for the journal 'Education & Psychology (India) December 1957
28. Talk on 'The Comprehensive School' given in Brighton, Spring 1956. Includes a note by Simon - 'given successfully at Crawley March 1957'
29. Notes for two talks on 'Criticism of the present situation' and 'The Common Secondary School', given at Thrapston School, 5 May 1957
30. Notes for a talk on 'Education and Psychology' given at Glasgow, February 1957
31. Notes for a talk on 'The Present Stage in the Struggle for Educational Advance' given at Matlock School, May 1957
32. Notes for talk on Stalinist Russia', 1957
33. Notes for a talk on 'Youth and the future, a new plan for education' given at Preston, March 1960 |