Reports

Rethinking the importance of teaching: Curriculum and collaboration in an era of localism

The latest report from the RSA's Area Based Curriculum work addresses the challenge of teachers not only being asked to design curriculum, but to collaborate with local stakeholders to do so. It concludes that while government emphasis on the quality and importance of teaching is welcome, the vision of what a quality teaching workforce looks like lacks ambition. Creative, critical and collaborative professionals are required to meet the challenge of diversity and knowledge in the 21st century, and teachers need to be supported and challenged to develop forms of professionalism that meet this need.

Download Rethinking the importance of teaching report (PDF, 121KB)

Peterborough Curriculum project update

This report takes stock of the RSA's Area Based Curriculum work in Peterborough 18 months into the project. It provides background to the project, describes what the RSA has done in Peterborough, gives some indicative findings from baseline research done with students, and the progress of schools and community partners in developing their projects. 

Download our Peterborough Curriculum project update (PDF, 3.52MB)

Lessons for localism

The RSA's Area Based Curriculum work in Peterborough is producing some important outcomes for students and schools that will be reported on in full in 2012. Interesting challenges are also emerging through the process of supporting schools to turn to their local areas in support of curriculum development, and this first of several pamphlets looks at the lessons that can be drawn for the government's localism agenda more broadly.

Download Area Based Curriculum: Lessons for localism (PDF, 1.5MB)

RSA Area Based Curriculum: Engaging the Local

This report from the RSA outlines the idea of the Area Based Curriculum, makes an argument for why using local areas as resources is essential in engaging all children with learning, and provides some indicative principles for action which will guide our own work in Peterborough and elsewhere.

Download the report Area Based Curriculum: Engaging the Local (PDF, 368KB)