RSA Education Seminars 2010
Report: "Can insights from other disciplines help us create a broad and balanced curriculum?"
This question was explored in two seminars, through dialogue between educationalists involved in curriculum and leading thinkers in a range of disciplines that have a broader relevance to how we learn. The seminars were:
26 February: The social brain and the curriculum
4 March: The curriculum and the agency of young people
Commissioned by RSA Projects, a report on the seminars by Professor Harry Torrance and Professor Maggie MacLure of the Education & Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University states:
"Many recent academic and policy publications acknowledge frustration with the rigidity of the existing National Curriculum, and its failure to adequately engage all pupil groups. Key reviews have suggested radical changes to the primary curriculum, and various commentators argue for extension of such radical reflection to the secondary curriculum."
Download the RSA Education Seminars report [PDF, 63KB]
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