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Home > Reflective Teaching in Secondary Schools >  3. Teaching for learning > 9. Curriculum > Reflective Activities > To consider the influence of views of knowledge on a part of a national or school curriculum


  1. 1. Becoming a reflective professional
       1. Identity
       2. Learning
  2.    3. Reflection
  3.    4. Principles
  4.    Observing [supplementary chapter]
  5.    Enquiry [supplementary chapter]
  6.    Mentoring [supplementary chapter]
  7.    Techniques of enquiry
       [supplementary chapter]

  8. 2. Creating conditions for learning
  9.    5. Contexts
  10.    6. Relationships
  11.    7. Engagement
  12.    8. Spaces

  13. 3. Teaching for learning
  14.    9. Curriculum
  15.    10. Planning
  16.    11. Pedagogy
  17.    12. Communication
  18.    13. Assessment

  19. 4. Reflecting on consequences
  20.    14. Outcomes
  21.    15. Social justice
  22.    Judgement
       [supplementary chapter]

  23. 5. Deepening understanding
  24.    16. Teacher expertise
  25.    17. Professional learning
  26.    18. Professionalism
  27.    Starting out [supplementary
       chapter]
  28.    Improvement [supplementary
       chapter]

To consider the influence of views of knowledge on a part of a national or school curriculum

Aim

To consider the influence of views of knowledge on a part of a national or school curriculum.

Evidence and reflection

This is a potentially large activity which needs to be made specific to keep it within bounds. We suggest that national or school documentation for a single subject is selected for study – the subject you teach and know well.

Consider, how is knowledge viewed? To what extent is it seen as an established body of subject content and skills to be transferred to learners, and to what extent is knowledge seen as something to be created through experiential engagement in tasks and activities? Can you see opportunities for synergies between these approaches?

Extension

Is this view of knowledge consistent with the aims and values of the curriculum that you investigated in To examine statements of aims and values presented in national curriculum and school documentation?


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