{"id":6060,"date":"2014-10-14T09:13:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6060"},"modified":"2014-10-14T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:13:42","slug":"trying-to-change-section-78-of-englands-2002-education-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/10\/14\/trying-to-change-section-78-of-englands-2002-education-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to change Section 78 of England's 2002 Education Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Section <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2002\/32\/section\/78\">78<\/a> of England's\u00a02002 Education Act begins like\u00a0this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>78 \u2013 General requirements in relation to curriculum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(1)<\/strong> The curriculum for a maintained school or maintained nursery school satisfies the requirements of this section if it is a balanced and broadly based curriculum which ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>(a)<\/strong> promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society, and<\/p>\n<p><strong>(b)<\/strong> prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahead of next year's election, England's ESD\u00a0(cheer)leaders are trying\u00a0to persuade political parties\u00a0of every stripe (including, I trust, UKIP)\u00a0to shift the 'and', and then add the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>(c)<\/strong> instils an ethos and ability to care for oneself, others and the natural environment, now and in the future.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This will\u00a0be\u00a0difficult enough, as primary legislation is needed, but writing\u00a0something\u00a0that fits with what precedes it, would have been\u00a0a good first step. \u00a0So, it's a pity that pupils are not mentioned, and that the torturous \u2018instils an ethos \u2026 to care\u2019 sounds\u00a0more like\u00a0conditioning than\u00a0education.<\/p>\n<p>Surely\u00a0something like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>(c)\u00a0<\/strong><em>helps pupils learn to care for the natural environment and for other people\u00a0<\/em>\u201d would have been simpler \u2013 and therefore better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Committees, eh! \u00a0I'm not putting much money on any of this (even my version of [<strong>c<\/strong>])\u00a0succeeding any time soon as no one in government or oppositions seem particularly interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section 78 of England's\u00a02002 Education Act begins like\u00a0this: 78 \u2013 General requirements in relation to curriculum (1) The curriculum for a maintained school or maintained nursery school satisfies the requirements of this section if it is a balanced and broadly...<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060","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=6060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}