Issues Paper 7: The Whole Curriculum 14-19

Following its three Annual Reports in 2004, 2005 and 2006, the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training produced Issues Papers which focus upon specific areas of concern, with a view to widening the debate, testing out tentative conclusions and seeking further evidence.

One area of crucial importance is that of curriculum development for an ever more diverse 14-19 phase.

It is now 20 years since the launch of the National Curriculum for all young people up to the age of 16. Given the massive changes in society which affect all young people and given the problems which the Review has identified, is there not a need to re-appraise, not just the details of the curriculum, but also the very nature of 'a National Curriculum' and of 'whole curriculum planning'?

This Issues Paper, therefore, examines the notions of 'the whole curriculum', 'curriculum development', the principles which should guide such development, and the role of the teacher in that development.

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