Report on subject breadth in international jurisdictions
This report describes the organisation and content of school curricula in several countries and jurisdictions. It includes information about their: curriculum structure and organisation; curriculum review processes; lower secondary qualifications; and compulsory and optional curriculum subjects at different educational phases.
The principal source of information for this report has been the International Review of Curriculum and Assessment Frameworks Archive (INCA), the content of which is managed by NFER. INCA provides descriptions of government policy on education in 21 countries worldwide, focusing on curriculum, assessment and initial teacher training frameworks for pre‐school, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education in schools.
DFE Research Report RR178a (PDF 130pp)
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Thursday, 5 January 2012
The Framework for the National Curriculum: …
A report by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum review
This report summarises the Expert Panel’s thinking on a range of fundamentally important issues, which are crucial to defining an overarching conception of the purposes, shape, size and structure of the curriculum. The report focuses in particular on a number of recommendations, some of which have the potential to result in radical change to the National Curriculum, beyond change to curriculum content.
It is hoped that the report will help to generate public discussion and constructive contributions to the Department’s review of the National Curriculum over the weeks and months to come.
Includes:
This report summarises the Expert Panel’s thinking on a range of fundamentally important issues, which are crucial to defining an overarching conception of the purposes, shape, size and structure of the curriculum. The report focuses in particular on a number of recommendations, some of which have the potential to result in radical change to the National Curriculum, beyond change to curriculum content.
It is hoped that the report will help to generate public discussion and constructive contributions to the Department’s review of the National Curriculum over the weeks and months to come.
Includes:
- Knowledge, Development and the Curriculum
- Aims and Purposes of the Curriculum
- The Structure of the School Curriculum (for primary and secondary)
- Subjects in the Curriculum through the Key Stages of Schooling
- The Structure of Key Stages
- The Organisation of Programmes of Study
- The Form of Programmes of Study and Attainment Targets
- Assessment, Reporting, and Pupil Progression
- Oral Language and its Development within the National Curriculum
- Risks
- Conclusions
- Annexes
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