Schools Without Boundaries

Schools without Boundaries is an RSA initiative that seeks to understand how best schools can provide an education for citizenship in the 21st century. As a first step in this initiative, the RSA is piloting an Area Based Curriculum working with 3 schools in Manchester during summer term 2009.

A report on Schools without Boundaries is due for publication in autumn 2009. Register for the RSA Education team mailing list to receive updates on this and all future RSA Education publications.

Read the RSA Journal article introducing Schools without Boundaries.

What's the idea?

Drawing on the practice of citizenship education, and an exploration of social capital in education, Schools without Boundaries argues for an idea of schools that:

• Are leaders of a local vision of education for citizenship
• Seek to establish inclusive, strong communities of learning within and beyond the school who take collective responsibility for engaging young people, providing new opportunities for learning within and beyond the school walls, and who ensure that young people’s participation matters
• Share the effort required in providing such an education, mobilising parents, employers, public services, cultural organisations and the voluntary sector to play their role

The RSA will seek to work with schools and education practitioners in other settings to find ways of making real a School without Boundaries. In doing so, we will seek to build on the learning from existing educational innovations, and particularly Opening Minds.

Find out more about the Area Based Curriculum pilot in Manchester.