Paying attention to knowledge structures within curriculum design is an area that has been under-researched in relation to teacher development. As a consequence, some curricula suffer from...
The Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship works with Steiner schools to translate and articulate a 100-year-old curriculum tradition in the 21st Century. In this presentation, Kath and Martyn talk...
This session discusses how XP School Trust, Doncaster, is enacting a curriculum designed to develop effective learners and learning, in which equal importance is given to the creation of...
It is often assumed that teacher professional knowledge is sufficient to undertake curriculum development and that curriculum focused CPD is about practical curriculum making, rather than a...
Teachers’ planning and design of the curriculum often brings into question how they learn to do this important task and how and their role in curriculum making is shaped. In this talk I discuss...
Andrew Truby founded the Mastery English programme at St Thomas of Canterbury School in Sheffield to address the need for a high-quality English curriculum for primary schools based around...
Both the explicit and implicit messages that schoolchildren receive from their textbooks matter. My research focuses on race and national belonging and how these have changed from the 1950s to the...
In an article recently published in the Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, we compared how national curriculum policy, in Norway and Brazil, adopted the global logic of...
The enduring argument over class size is one of the most contested in education. The argument is between many teachers and practitioners who feel that class size makes a big difference to teaching...
Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...
On 20th March 2015, an article published by the Independent (Garner, 2015) claimed that Finnish schools had scrapped school subjects and replaced them with topics. Ever since then Finland has been...
As with other educators, the rapid shift to online delivery during lockdown has led to self-reflection on my teaching skills, how they transfer online, and my ability to use online tools...