Ali Messer
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Teacher Education. History. Trad music. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
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https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
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This is what #contradance looks like at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social
Next contra Lynne Render with Box of Frogs at London Barndance on 10th January. Starts at 8pm. Everyone welcome!
Next contra Lynne Render with Box of Frogs at London Barndance on 10th January. Starts at 8pm. Everyone welcome!
January 6, 2026 at 12:25 AM
This is what #contradance looks like at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social
Next contra Lynne Render with Box of Frogs at London Barndance on 10th January. Starts at 8pm. Everyone welcome!
Next contra Lynne Render with Box of Frogs at London Barndance on 10th January. Starts at 8pm. Everyone welcome!
Merry Christmas Larry! Paintings by my daughter of two Bengal siblings
December 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Merry Christmas Larry! Paintings by my daughter of two Bengal siblings
Books by Hare and Woods, James Baldwin, Corinne Fowler, Alice Wong from my daughters. Got some catch up reading to do.
December 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Books by Hare and Woods, James Baldwin, Corinne Fowler, Alice Wong from my daughters. Got some catch up reading to do.
#contradancing happens in the UK too! Nicola Scott is calling @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social on Dec 13th with the awesome Contrasaurus and Dec 14th www.ashfordfolkdancers.org.uk/contra_dances with The Linda Game Band
December 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
#contradancing happens in the UK too! Nicola Scott is calling @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social on Dec 13th with the awesome Contrasaurus and Dec 14th www.ashfordfolkdancers.org.uk/contra_dances with The Linda Game Band
maps.app.goo.gl/3fZLiFf4wfMx... visited a museum originally used by the Gestapo. Oppressive basement cells. And an exhibition about the othering of so many. We noticed many teenagers visiting perhaps as part of school visits.
December 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
maps.app.goo.gl/3fZLiFf4wfMx... visited a museum originally used by the Gestapo. Oppressive basement cells. And an exhibition about the othering of so many. We noticed many teenagers visiting perhaps as part of school visits.
First time in Cologne, and I stumble upon maps.stolpersteine.app/DE/K%C3%B6ln...
My German is very basic and I look up the word 'vershollen'. Lost. But before 'hier wohnte': lived here.
My German is very basic and I look up the word 'vershollen'. Lost. But before 'hier wohnte': lived here.
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
First time in Cologne, and I stumble upon maps.stolpersteine.app/DE/K%C3%B6ln...
My German is very basic and I look up the word 'vershollen'. Lost. But before 'hier wohnte': lived here.
My German is very basic and I look up the word 'vershollen'. Lost. But before 'hier wohnte': lived here.
@helenfcarr.bsky.social presents her research. It matters that teachers know what pupils THINK they know
#HistoryEducation @htenuk.bsky.social
#HistoryEducation @htenuk.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
@helenfcarr.bsky.social presents her research. It matters that teachers know what pupils THINK they know
#HistoryEducation @htenuk.bsky.social
#HistoryEducation @htenuk.bsky.social
@htenuk.bsky.social conference today discussing the teaching of history especially linked to suffering and conflict in the present with principles from @victoriacrooks.bsky.social and @lauralondo1017.bsky.social
First session led by Rob Kanter from MMU
First session led by Rob Kanter from MMU
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
@htenuk.bsky.social conference today discussing the teaching of history especially linked to suffering and conflict in the present with principles from @victoriacrooks.bsky.social and @lauralondo1017.bsky.social
First session led by Rob Kanter from MMU
First session led by Rob Kanter from MMU
Experts on my phone: I can see this from my window, but I am not sure what it is called. Do you know?
October 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Experts on my phone: I can see this from my window, but I am not sure what it is called. Do you know?
www.youtube.com/live/qONEeRP... just got my copy of the book, bringing history and participatory music and dance together.
#HistoryEducation #Contradancing
#HistoryEducation #Contradancing
September 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
www.youtube.com/live/qONEeRP... just got my copy of the book, bringing history and participatory music and dance together.
#HistoryEducation #Contradancing
#HistoryEducation #Contradancing
#Contradance in the UK @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social on 11th October with Cis Hinkle (from Atlanta) calling
www.barndance.org
www.barndance.org
September 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
#Contradance in the UK @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social on 11th October with Cis Hinkle (from Atlanta) calling
www.barndance.org
www.barndance.org
@alexcummingmusic.bsky.social and Audrey Jaber play for contra with Louise Siddons @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
@alexcummingmusic.bsky.social and Audrey Jaber play for contra with Louise Siddons @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social
@sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social Box of Frogs back at the Methodist today at 2.15 for squares
August 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
@sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social Box of Frogs back at the Methodist today at 2.15 for squares
PGCE Secondary @uni-roehampton.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
PGCE Secondary @uni-roehampton.bsky.social
Next London Barndance is July 12th @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social with @lsiddons.bsky.social calling and fabulous music from WillPower #ContraDancing vm.tiktok.com/ZNdUC65aw/
June 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Next London Barndance is July 12th @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social with @lsiddons.bsky.social calling and fabulous music from WillPower #ContraDancing vm.tiktok.com/ZNdUC65aw/
It might help to start with controversy elsewhere and work in? A gradient of controversy approach #HistoryEducation
June 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It might help to start with controversy elsewhere and work in? A gradient of controversy approach #HistoryEducation
What happens when the context for teaching history is itself challenging? @htenuk.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What happens when the context for teaching history is itself challenging? @htenuk.bsky.social
What Prof Pace found: so many constraints to overcome and yet also many strategies. These included the selection of issues, provocative resources, dialogic methods, supportive cohorts
June 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
What Prof Pace found: so many constraints to overcome and yet also many strategies. These included the selection of issues, provocative resources, dialogic methods, supportive cohorts
Why should we teach controversial issues? Links emerging already to discussions at previous meetings about the purposes of #HistoryEducation and the pedagogies we might need
June 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Why should we teach controversial issues? Links emerging already to discussions at previous meetings about the purposes of #HistoryEducation and the pedagogies we might need
Larry Unger and Elke Baker at London Barndance with Charlie Turner calling #ContraDancing @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social
Next event @lsiddons.bsky.social with WillPower 12th July
Next event @lsiddons.bsky.social with WillPower 12th July
June 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Larry Unger and Elke Baker at London Barndance with Charlie Turner calling #ContraDancing @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social
Next event @lsiddons.bsky.social with WillPower 12th July
Next event @lsiddons.bsky.social with WillPower 12th July