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8/8/2019 England ECER England Curriculum Symposium
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The Public, the Personal, and
National Curricula: Reform in
England 1988 to 2010
Dominic Wyse
University of Cambridge
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Overview
Latest news from England
Exploring why we have reached this point
Theoretical orientation
New Labour, The NLS, and the rise of the
regulatory state
Reviewing the Primary Curriculum
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Latest News from EnglandImportant information on the primary curriculum and
Key Stage 3 level descriptions ...
Ministers are committed to giving schools more
freedom from unnecessary prescription and
bureaucracy. They have always made clear theirintentions to make changes to the National Curriculum
that will ensure a relentless focus on the basics and
give teachers more flexibility than the proposed new
primary curriculum offered.
The Government intends to return the National
Curriculum to its intended purpose a minimum
national entitlement organised around subject
disciplines and will shortly announce its next steps.
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Theoretical Orientation
Globalisation as a spatial frame(Ball, 2008)
Politicians perceptions of risk; the rise of
the regulatory state; decline in trust(Wyse and Opfer, 2010)
League tables, target setting, high stakes
assessment as a new imperialism
(Tikly, 2004)
Political ideologies - classic Conservatism
vs New Labour Project
The personal and the public
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Date Title
1997
Published 1999 for
Implementation in 2000
National Literacy Strategy Frameworks for Teaching
The National Curriculum Handbook for Primary Teachers in
England Key Stages 1 & 2
2003 Excellence and Enjoyment: A strategy for primary Schools
2006 March
2007 March, Published
2008 September becomes
statutory
Independent review of the teaching of early reading Final Report,
Jim Rose, March 2006
Early Years Foundation
2007 published
2008 becomes statutory
2008, December
National Curriculum Key Stages 3 and 4
The Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum: Interim
Report
2009, March House of Commons Children, Schools and Families: NationalCurriculum Fourth Report of Session 2008 SO9 Vol. 1
Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum: Final Report
2009, June House of Commons Children, Schools and Families: National
Curriculum : Government Response to the Committees Fourth
Report of Session 2008S09Third Special Report of Session S09
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New Labour, The NLS, and
the rise of the regulatory state
Education Reform Act
1988 and a trajectory of
increasing government
control
The Learning Game:
Arguments for anEducation Revolution.
Michael Barber
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The Learning Game
Within the foreseeable future, Britain will need aneducation service which is capable of providinghigher standards, to match those anywhere onearth ... (p. 5)
On the second of May [1997], I was appointed byDavid Blunkett to lead the new Standards andEffectiveness Unit in the Department forEducation and Employment. As a result, I findmyself taking responsibility for the implementationof the policy strategy which I played a part indeveloping prior to the election.(p. 11)
World class education system; standards;
national testing; target setting
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New Labour, The NLS, and the rise of
the regulatory state
1996 The Literacy Task Force (chair MichaelBarber):
International comparisons of childrens achievements in readingsuggest Britain is not performing well, with a slightly belowaverage position in international literacy league tables
1997 New Labour Government and the NationalLiteracy Strategy (NLS)
Powerful levers for state control
Personal visions of Barber, Stannard andHuxford (Stannard and Huxford, 2007)
Lack of attention to the whole curriculum
(Boyle and Bragg, 2006)
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Reviewing
thePrimary
Curriculum
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Reviewing the Primary
Curriculum Government commissioned independent
review
The Cambridge Primary Review
House of Commons inquiry
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House of Commons inquiry
1. The evidence that we received revealed a consensusthat the nature and particularly the management of the
National Curriculum is in urgent need of significant reform.
2. We would like to see the National Curriculum
underpinned by the principle that it should seek to prescribeas little as possible and by the principle of subsidiarity, with
decisions made at the lowest appropriate level.
3. In order to keep the amount of prescription through theNational Curriculum to an absolute minimum we
recommend that a cap is placed on the proportion of
teaching time that it accounts for. Our view is that it should
be less than half of teaching time.
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Government ResponseRecent curriculum reviews have found overwhelming
support for the continuation of a National Curriculum and
the benefits it brings ...
Responsibility for curriculum development will remainexactly as it is now.
There will be no substantive change to how the curriculum
is developed and monitored.
Rose recommendations accepted by New Labour.
New Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition
government deletes new NC and axes QCDA
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Conclusions New government proposals: Curriculum
freedom? But Subject disciplines; Relentlessfocus on basics
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Conclusions New government proposals: Curriculum
freedom? But Subject disciplines; Relentlessfocus on basics
Who will be involved in future curriculumdevelopment?
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Conclusions New government proposals: Curriculum
freedom? But Subject disciplines; Relentlessfocus on basics
Who will be involved in future curriculumdevelopment?
Need more rigorous and subtle balancing of
personal and public ownership of curriculum
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Conclusions New government proposals: Curriculum
freedom? But Subject disciplines; Relentlessfocus on basics
Who will be involved in future curriculumdevelopment?
Need more rigorous and subtle balancing of
personal and public ownership of curriculum
Other countries (including within the UK!) provideuseful models of curriculum development