Public lectures
- Entitlement, freedom, minimalism and essential knowledge: can the curriculum circle be squared? CPPS Westminster Seminar Keynote, London.
23 April 2012
20120423_CPPS_text_Alexander.pdf - Priorities for a primary curriculum, The Westminster Education Forum Keynote Lecture, London.
10 May 2011
Westminster_Forum_RobinAlexander_May2011.pdf - Legacies, policies and prospects: one year on from the Cambridge Primary Review, The 2010 Brian Simon Memorial Lecture, London.
6 November 2010
Simon_lecture_in_FORUM_53_1_web.pdf - as revised for Forum in January 2011. - The perils of policy: success, amnesia and collateral damage in systemic educational reform, Miegunyah Lecture, University of Melbourne.
10 March 2010
Alexander_Miegunyah_lecture_FINAL.pdf - Reform, retrench or recycle? A curriculum cautionary tale. National Curriculum Symposium Keynote, University of Melbourne.
25 February 2010
Alexander_National_Curriculum_Symposium_FINAL.pdf - World class schools: noble aspiration or globalised hokum? Presidential Address to the British Association for International and Comparative Education, Oxford.
16 September 2009
BAICE_presidential_090916_M.pdf - Plowden, truth and myth: a warning, College of Teachers Award Ceremony, London.
15 May 2009
College_of_Teachers_15.5.09.pdf - The Cambridge Primary Review: emerging perspectives on childhood. Conference on Childhood, Wellbeing and Primary Education presented jointly by the CPR, the Children's Society and the GTCE, Central Hall, Westminster.
17 March 2008.
Childhood_lecture_2.pdf - Towards a new vision for primary education? Midway through the Cambridge Primary Review. Weavers' Company Invitational Lecture, Church House, Westminster.
20 November 2007
Weavers_lecture_text_B.pdf