Peter Cunningham - Former member of staff
Position/Status
Senior Lecturer until September 2008
E-mail Address:
pjc36@cam.ac.uk
Qualifications
PGCE, MA, PhD
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
- History of Education Society (UK)
- Historical Association
Profile
Research interests in the historical and contemporary development of educational policy and practice, with a particular focus on the primary school curriculum and the training and professional identity of primary school teachers. He has researched and written on educational innovators and progressives, and is a contributor on educationists to the New Dictionary of National Biography. He has been active nationally and internationally in organisations for the study of educational history and is a member of the editorial boards of the journals History of Education, Journal of Educational Administration and History, and the Cambridge Journal of Education.
Academic Area/Links
- History of Education
- Primary Education
- History Curriculum
Research Topics
- History of the Teaching Profession
- Curriculum History
- History of Pedagogy
Current Research Projects
- Archive of Teacher Memory, resulting from Leverhulme and ESRC funded projects.
- Publication of sources for the history of education.
Course Involvement
- PhD
- PGCE (Primary and Early Years)
- BA (Education Studies and History)
Publications
Cunningham, P., Curriculum Change in the Primary School since 1945 (1988) translated and published in Japanese 2006.
Cunningham, P., Early Years Teachers and the influence of Piaget: evidence from oral history Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development 26, 1, (March 2006) 5-16.
Cunningham, P., 'Progressivism, Decentralisation and Recentralisation: Local Education Authorities and the primary curriculum, 1902-2002', Oxford Review of Education, 28, 2 and 3, (2002) 217-233.
Cunningham, P. and Gardner, P., Becoming Teachers: Text and Testimony 1907-1950 London: Woburn Press (2004) (ISBN 0 7130 4032 7).
Cunningham, P., 'Primary Education' in Aldrich, R. (Ed.) A Century of Education, London: Falmer, (2002) 9-30.
Cunningham, P., 'Innovators, networks and structures: towards a prosopography of progressivism' History of Education, 30, 5, (2001) 433-451.
Cunningham, P., 'Moving Images: Propaganda Film And British Education 1940-45' in Paedagogica Historica 36, 1, (2000) 391-405.
Cunningham, P., 'The Montessori Phenomenon: Gender and Internationalism in early twentieth-century innovation' in Hilton, M. and Hirsch, P., (Eds.) Practical Visionaries: Women, Education and Social Progress 1790-1930, Longman/Pearson (2000) 203-220.
Cunningham, P., Being a Primary Teacher in the Twentieth Century: CREPE Occasional Papers no.13 (Centre for Research in Elementary and Primary Education, University of Warwick) (2000).