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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
In considering the importance of knowledge and subject-specialist teaching, Lambert (2018) highlights that ‘the curriculum: the quality of its contents, its seq...
There is increasing concern within and beyond the teaching profession at how the primary curriculum in England in recent years has become unbalanced, with the e...
We can find a justification for music as an important part of human development right back to Plato. In the Middle Ages, music continued to be seen as a tool fo...
A UNICEF report in 2013 on the 29 most wealthy countries placed the United Kingdom as lowest in terms of children aged 15 to 19 remaining in education. Although...
As a teacher of mathematics, I heard many conversations about whether GCSE is a two- or three-year programme of study and in what order we should teach the vari...
Our students are growing up in unsettling times. Climate change, plastic pollution, political polarisation, isolationism, social atomisation and anxiety are jus...
The author of this article is the Director of CreativeKids, an organisation offering chargeable workshops to children and young people in Hong Kong.
Fear of...
In January 2019, Damian Hinds announced that the DfE would be supporting schools to implement flexible working practices such as job-sharing, whereby two teache...
According to its last annual report, half of all senior leaders in England consult the Education Endowment Foundation’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit to inform ...
The literature on group work indicates pros and cons to its use in the classroom. By looking at mechanisms of group failure and success and then linking these t...
