Curriculum reform: material concerns

Elizabeth Curtis

Neil Curtis

Education to…

'improve the condition of [James IV’s] people', who are 'rude, ignorant of letters and almost barbarous people’ among whom 'suitable men cannot be found not only for the preaching of the word of God...but even for administering the church'.

Papal Bull establishing King’s College, 1495

Education for…

• Academia?

• Vocation?

• Citizenship?

• Understanding the spatial and temporal complexity of the cultural world

• Respecting different ways of understanding: no universal ‘core’ curriculum

• Learning skills and knowledge in practice

• Learning beyond text: buildings, collections, environment, creativity

ExperienceA broad education – Highers?A specialist intent – Advanced Highers/A Levels?

ProgressionLevel 1Learning how to be a student Learning how to contributeFormative assessment critical

Levels 2 -4Learning how to be a scholarLearning how to participate Summative assessement increasingly important

Becoming a student

KL155B, KL205K, KL3052, KL4051 Archaeology Portfolios

Progression

Becoming a student

Finding the Curriculum in the Environment

ED2503 (BEd 2 Social Studies)ED4018 (Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Primary))

Embodied learning: being in the world

Finding the Curriculum in the Environment

ED2503 (BEd 2 Social Studies)ED4018 (Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Primary))

Embodied learning: being in the world

ED2503 (BEd 2 Social Studies)ED4018 (Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Primary))

Embodied learning: being in the world

Pedagogy

• ‘Helps develop a richer understanding’

• ‘People bring different things to the group – you can learn from other people’s experience.’

• ‘Our group was a friendship group so this made collaboration enjoyable and productive.’

• ‘Helped us to reflect on learning’

• ‘Some of the group have varying levels of commitment’

• ‘If some group members do not share, the project loses the enjoyment factor’

• ‘We didn’t work collaboratively – everybody worked on their own but then put it together.’

GD2501 Gendering Violence

Learning with objects

Embodied learning: being in the world

AT4512 Material Culture and MuseumsEL40BL Frankenstein to Einstein: literature and science in the 19th century

Exhibiting learning

Giving back: the ethics of learning

Contributing to the community

Giving back: the ethics of learning