{"id":1649,"date":"2012-04-13T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T09:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2012-04-13T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T09:31:19","slug":"aims-and-the-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/04\/13\/aims-and-the-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Aims and the Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a short presentation on \"Aims and the Curriculum\"\u00a0at the recent <em>South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/swlfsc.blogspot.co.uk\/\">seminar<\/a> which focused on forthcoming changes to national and school curriculums. \u00a0The meeting looked in particular at the recent expert panel <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/01\/12\/expert-panel-report-on-the-national-curriculum\/\">report<\/a> and drew on the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.se-ed.co.uk\">SEEd<\/a> \/ SA consultation on all this.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my main points:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deciding what to teach implies choosing \u2013 <em>but who is to choose, and how, and what is to guide choice?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Curriculum is concerned with how we think about the social purposes of education, and always involves a selecting from culture (Lawton) \u2013 <em>and hence is political, contested and labile<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Methodology is to <em>method as curriculum is to what is taught\u2013<\/em> <em>a conceptual frame that guides (and restricts) choice<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>High-level aim statements can provide such a conceptual frame<em> \u2013 and the 5 aims set out by the expert panel are examples of this<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Having aims such as the expert panel's 5th one:\u00a0<em>to promote understanding of sustainability in the stewardship of resources locally, nationally and globally<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>... confers three possible benefits:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><em>for those who are already convinced, they serve as extra validation;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>for the uncertain, they provide permission; and<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>for the unaware, they are an alert<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It remains to be seen what Mr Gove and his advisors make of all this. \u00a0Decisions shortly, it seems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a short presentation on \"Aims and the Curriculum\"\u00a0at the recent South West Learning for Sustainability Coalition seminar which focused on forthcoming changes to national and school curriculums. \u00a0The meeting looked in particular at the recent expert panel report...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}