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Time for an alternative curriculum

Reiss, M; White, J; (2013) Time for an alternative curriculum. School Leadership Today , 4 (6) pp. 50-55.

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Abstract

School curricula nearly always start with subjects. We argue that it would be better if they started with the aims of education. We begin from two overarching ones: to enable each student to lead a life that is personally flourishing; to help others to do so, too. These two aims generate lesser aims of increasing specificity. Once a nation-wide framework is in place, the remaining task of curriculum construction passes to the schools. It is they who fill out the general scheme of an aims-based curriculum (ABC) with activities suited to their students and their circumstances.

Type: Article
Title: Time for an alternative curriculum
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10024049
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