Participation in recreational activities: views, experiences and choices from children and young people with cerebral palsy

  http://www.playwales.org.uk/eng/ ‘All children and young people have the right to rest, leisure, play and recreation and to take part in cultural and artistic...

Will to Power: Project-Based Learning in Post-WWII Japanese School Curriculum

In 1998, Japan’s curriculum authorities published curriculum guidelines (gakushu shido yoryo) for national compulsory education, dubbed as the ‘yutori (latitude) curriculum’ with a pinch of...

Does it matter how the change is done? National curriculum reform in Finland

In many countries, Finland included, national curriculum reform are central tools for large-scale school development. However, the way the reforms are carried out affects what actually happens -...

Clarifying accent standards for British teachers

The linguistic standards for British teachers within teacher training, and for teachers’ future careers, are clearly outlined by the DfE: ‘demonstrate an understanding of and take...

Seventy Thousand Hours in the Community and Counting: A New Approach to Practicum in Initial Teacher Education

Scotland: Reform, professionalism and delivery

When trying to envisage the role of ‘teacher’ in the future it can be difficult to have a vision of something that takes us beyond our own experience.  Introducing new approaches to the...

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” – Chinese proverb

Scotland: Reform, professionalism and delivery

The winds of change can be welcome, pushing you to a better world. For many teachers in Wales today the current climate feels more like a storm. In 1999 the first elections to the newly...

An Educational HS2 to Irrelevance?

Scotland: Reform, professionalism and delivery

Over at least the last 40 years education policies in the United Kingdom have been seeking to make schools become more effective in meeting increasingly demanding political expectations. We have,...

Professional Learning for Teacher Leadership

Scotland: Reform, professionalism and delivery

Teacher leadership is a term which is increasingly being used in Scottish educational policy and the Scottish College for Educational Leadership (SCEL) has been tasked with supporting the...

Teacher Agency and Curriculum Development

Scotland: Reform, professionalism and delivery

Recent curriculum policy in the UK and elsewhere (e.g. Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, Successful Futures in Wales, and the New Zealand Curriculum Framework) marks a significant departure...