IOE at 120: the mission to transform education and society continues, 2012–22 and into the future
By Blog Editor, IOE Digital, on 8 December 2022
8 December 2022
By Emma Wisby
This is the last in a series of 12 blogs exploring each decade in IOE’s history in the context of the education and society of the times. Find out more about our 120th anniversary celebrations on our website, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn to keep up with everything that’s happening.
It is important for an organization to have a sense of its history, to take opportunities to reflect on that journey as well as celebrate its contributions and achievements. That is what we have been doing this year at IOE, as it marks its 120th anniversary. It has been an opportunity to recognize the many individuals and organizations that have been a vital part of IOE’s impact. Central to this has been the IOE at 120 blog series, which in this piece we draw together and bring to the present day.
As the series has conveyed, organizationally IOE has taken many different forms:
- from elementary teacher training college for London with just 58 students,
- to the Area Training Organization for London, overseeing some 30 teacher education colleges,
- and back to a single entity; from one of England’s esteemed ‘mono-technics’ or ‘specialist institutions’, alongside the likes of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Royal College of Art,
- to a world-leading faculty within UCL.
In parallel, we see IOE’s influence on the field of education studies and then, over more recent decades, related areas of social science and the arts (more…)