In a changing and uncertain world, most of us can agree that education is one of the single most important things in society today. Aside from imparting knowled...
Curriculum studies has been in decline for some years in the UK. As an early career teacher in the 1990s, I was able to choose from a range of university Master...
Within the United Kingdom there has been a significant amount of curriculum reform since the late 1980s, but the directions taken by Scotland, England, Wales an...
Rhetoric?
Would you want to work in a school that had a narrow, unbalanced curriculum? How about one with a broad, balanced curriculum? The questions are rhet...
Ofsted’s consultation about its new education inspection framework, with its focus on the curriculum, is leading Early Years practitioners to wonder what a curr...
The number of special schools is set to rise in the future (DfE, 2018). First and foremost, new special schools will need to ensure that they are offering and d...
Principles of community curriculum-making
Most people will be familiar with the African proverb that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. Hold that thought. ...
Since 1988, the curriculum has been a requirement of every school in England. Its earliest aims sought to ‘equip children for a lively and constructive place in...
No matter how much you prepare for your first headship, nothing can prepare you for what you will unearth when you finally take the role. Under interim heads, o...
At the heart of the British-American author Simon Sinek’s book Start with Why is the claim that the best organisations appreciate why they do something, as well...
As history teachers and key stage leaders in an East London comprehensive secondary school, we have been working with subject leaders to introduce a version of ...
The recent development of ‘truth decay’, the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public discourse, makes the turn towards a knowledge-rich National Curric...
With a completely blank slate for education, where would you start? Suggestions abound in the British press regarding what ‘should’ be taught (Parents and Teach...
What are the aims of our schools, and what do they communicate about values? The aims of education are contested (Garratt and Forrester, 2012), originating from...
Can mindfulness contribute to a broad and balanced curriculum that enriches life?
Philippa Griffiths, PGCE (geography), University of Oxford
Before embarking ...
Rehabilitating marking
A cursory online image-search under the word ‘marking’ reveals a sea of images that speaks volumes: frame after frame of tired, dejected...
As part of a well-balanced education, the PSHCE curriculum at St Mary’s includes initiatives to help pupils develop social and emotional skills, personal confid...
When curriculum is focused on knowledge that takes students beyond their everyday experience, it has the potential to contribute to an increase in social mobili...
Over the 30-plus years of National Curriculum, balance and breadth have largely been a debate around the amount of time allocated between core and foundation su...
When in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century the Oxford-educated historian and best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari asks, ‘How can we prepare ourselves and our chil...
