Newspapers have written about an outdated education system changes needed for the future, politicians seem to have been reluctant to make changes to the current system for fear of it being unpopular and them losing votes, some politicians have looked unfavourably at an alternative schooling system and its supporters, preferring to maintain the current national curriculum.
The English National Curriculum embodies the knowledge based view of knowledge, explaining exactly what level of knowledge the students should have gained by a certain age. The implications for teaching and learning with such a framework is quite restricting for teachers and students, teachers have certain targets to achieve with the students, students are then tested against these targets.
The international trends exemplified here are curriculum as a lever for improvement, the student aims in the curriculum are targets for teachers to enable pupils to reach, as well as for pupils to achieve. Also curriculum coherence, a national curriculum allows for conformity across the whole country and the development of an educational standard across schools.
There is little freedom on the part of the professional to develop their own individual methods as they are required to comply with a predefined system. It seems to be a little bit like a factory turning out the same version of a person time and time again and the teacher is the fabricator.
The English National Curriculum
Newspapers have written about an outdated education system changes needed for the future, politicians seem to have been reluctant to make changes to the current system for fear of it being unpopular and them losing votes, some politicians have looked unfavourably at an alternative schooling system and its supporters, preferring to maintain the current national curriculum.
The English National Curriculum embodies the knowledge based view of knowledge, explaining exactly what level of knowledge the students should have gained by a certain age. The implications for teaching and learning with such a framework is quite restricting for teachers and students, teachers have certain targets to achieve with the students, students are then tested against these targets.
The international trends exemplified here are curriculum as a lever for improvement, the student aims in the curriculum are targets for teachers to enable pupils to reach, as well as for pupils to achieve. Also curriculum coherence, a national curriculum allows for conformity across the whole country and the development of an educational standard across schools.
There is little freedom on the part of the professional to develop their own individual methods as they are required to comply with a predefined system. It seems to be a little bit like a factory turning out the same version of a person time and time again and the teacher is the fabricator.