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The Curriculum for Wales defines cynefin as ‘the place where we belong, where the people and landscape around us are familiar, and the sights and sounds are reassuringly recognisable’. My...
In this blog post I explain the struggle to have one word – cynefin – accepted into the Curriculum for Wales. I was lucky enough to be involved in writing the new curriculum and, as a former...
Education plays an important role in the Curriculum for Wales, developing the relationship of children and young people to their community, which is captured in the Welsh word ‘cynefin’...
Wales is a small country that is distinctive in its landscape, culture and language. This gives the notion of place a particular resonance in Wales and reinforces the significance of local...
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Cynefin is a Welsh term that connotes a sense of belonging, of being rooted in a time and space that is nurturing and authentic. As a concept, it has a resonance in any educative endeavour, for we...
When considered in conjunction with a long-standing commitment to children’s rights by the Welsh Government, the development of the Curriculum for Wales (CfW) may be a perfect opportunity for...
It is clear that cynefin/belonging lies at the heart of the Curriculum for Wales and is at the core of DARPL. As a result, a sense of cynefin for Welsh learners and educators is a powerful...
Wales is in a time of unprecedented curriculum reform. In September 2022 Wales started the roll-out of their reformed Curriculum for Wales (CfW). This purpose-led curriculum is designed to be...
Introduction For many years, school curriculum resources have been designed without explicit reference to research evidence and without extensive trialling in classrooms (Burkhardt & Schoenfeld,...
As educators in university education departments, we want to teach about the complex and contested nature of education and society. Furthermore, we are very conscious that our planetary...
Image by Freepik School curriculum has always been a contested space where parents, teachers and policymakers expressed their often-divergent views on purposes of education. Such debates...
This special issue of the BERA Blog is the result of a collaboration between Antonia Voigt and Deepti R Bhat, two doctoral researchers at the School of Education, University of Bristol. Although...