A knowledge-rich curriculum: the challenges of change
To lay my curricular cards on the table, I believe that the promotion of a knowledge-rich approach to teaching is the best available option to us in order to bring about sustainable positive change. For me, this means that we should: Write and implement clear, well-organised enacted, which specify and prioritise the teaching of knowledge to a greater degree than is currently typical Ensure that this increased knowledge-base is used meaningfully, to inform and enable domain-specific achievements in critical thinking, reasoning, increasing independence of thought etc It means that we should broadly avoid: Attempts to build curricula around the development of generic ‘skills’ which transfer across subject domains, such as resilience or creativity Approaches which try to downplay the value of subject content because technology or assumed conditions in ‘th...