Curriculum is all about power. Decisions about what knowledge to teach are an exercise of power and therefore a weighty ethical responsibility. What we choose t...
Michael Young and colleagues’ principle of ‘powerful knowledge’ (Young et al., 2014) reignited debate about how the school curriculum can be a tool for social j...
England’s National Curriculum states, in an echo of Matthew Arnold’s words from his book Culture and Anarchy (Arnold, 1869), that teachers should provide ‘pupil...
Public debate across the West is often polarised, angry and hysterical. Social media amplifies extreme and strident views. People tend to think the worst of the...
In the last few years, there has been a fascinating debate developing around the concept of a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’. Sometimes this is referred to as know...
This article discusses curriculum content and structure for pupils with a distinctive profile: those who have a learning disability, whose learning attainments ...
What is the purpose of education?
If a button were pressed, and you found yourself with a blank slate for deciding what would be educationally worthwhile to ...
When the curriculum lacks coherence, it is both harder to teach and harder for students to locate and place their new knowledge.
The notion of curriculum coh...
Not all pupils arrive in the music classroom as novices, and some bring expert knowledge of a variety of musical traditions. This has important implicati...
Religious education (RE) has been described as ‘an uneasy coalition of several disciplines in undisciplined competition with each other’ (Chater and Erricker, 2...
The context of modern languages teaching
It is easy to argue that modern language teaching in English-speaking countries is in crisis. In England, the supply o...
The Religious Education Council has warned that without good religious education (RE) teachers, religious discrimination could rise. Yet, 2017–18 saw a third of...
In the primary curriculum, geography is referred to, unsurprisingly, as the ‘umbrella’ subject because of its capacity to make tangible and effective connection...
Designing a deep and durable primary mathematics curriculum
By KEVIN HUBBARD
Following a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developmen...
"As teacher training in the UK becomes increasingly school-based, largely as a result of government requirements, the question of whether and in what sense ther...
It is little surprise that, with so much riding on the recruitment and quality of new teachers, the nature and content of Postgraduate Initial Teacher Education...
A knowledge organiser (KO) sets out the important, useful and powerful knowledge on a topic on a single page (Kirby, 2015). With the content demands of new cour...
The importance of the curriculum in effective teaching
Walter Doyle’s seminal paper ‘Effective teaching’, written over thirty years ago (Doyle, 1985), argues...
Deepening knowledge through vocabulary learning
Effective vocabulary instruction: The underlying reasoning and research
Isabel L Beck and Margaret G McKeown
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Introduction
In 2004, Robin Alexander published his seminal work Towards Dialogic Teaching: Rethinking Classroom Talk (Alexander , 2017). Now in its fifth edit...
