Oral history recording - Norman Graves The folder, in the IOE stores, contains a printed copy of the transcript. Graves talks about; born 1925 early life in France, moving to the UK aged ten, leaving school aged 16 war work with the Post Office Engineering Department, somehow being exempt from service studying at the Regent Street Polytechnic for the equivalent of the higher school certificate grant from Ministry of Education to continue education interrupted by the second world war, studied at London School of Economics, then went to the IOE as a student IOE at Senate House Neville Scarfe, Reg Honeybone, Molly Lang friendliness of the IOE Reg Honeybone as significant figure for him in learning to teach teaching practice at East Ham Grammar School, ended up with a teaching post there being union representative, entertainments officer reluctance of women to dance with Black students (racism) friend called Felix Ankrah rooms used by the student union socials in the assembly hall typical week studying at the IOE moving to post as head of geography at a technical school returning to the IOE for Academic Diploma in Education, then MA under Professor Lauwerys life teaching at Mallory Comprehensive School, Bromley relocation to Liverpool to lecture at the University of Liverpool, 1961 PhD returning to the IOE as Head of Department, 1963 staff changes at the IOE, new staff Bill Wall, Bernstein socialising with other staff changes in the teaching of geography, move towards working with B Ed students his book - Currirulum Planning in Geography work with UNESCO, and less so with the World Education Fellowship changes in education over his career, and how th eIOE was affected by these changes These recordings and transcripts are available on UCL Digital Collections in the Oral Histories section. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/digital-collections/collections/education 2018