Planning a competence-based curriculum: the case of four secondary schools in England
Byrne, Jenny, Downey, Christopher and Souza, Ana (2012) Planning a competence-based curriculum: the case of four secondary schools in England. Curriculum Journal (doi:10.1080/09585176.2012.731007). (In Press).
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Despite the belief that schools tend to be resistant to change (Hargreaves 1994), it is possible to find secondary schools in the UK which are investing in the design of an innovative curriculum for their year 7, (11-year-old students). This paper focuses on four of these schools and discusses some of the challenges they face in planning and implementing their competence-based curricula. Such curricula tend to be based on the rationale that they better prepare all students for the constant changes of human knowledge and understanding. They develop transferable skills rather than subject specific content, which are considered necessary requirements for learners as future productive members of society in the 21st Century. Advocates of competence-based curricula argue that such curricula are more inclusive and emancipatory that traditional curricula, although this view is contested (e.g. Young 2008). Employing Bernstein’s (1973, 1999) concepts of framing and classification of the curriculum this paper describes the challenges and constraints encountered by four schools which have endeavoured to develop a competence-based curriculum.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0958-5176 (print) 1469-3704 (electronic) |
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| Keywords: | school transition, secondary schools, planning, innovation, competence-based curriculum |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social and Human Sciences > Southampton Education School |
| Item ID: | 342206 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2012 14:41 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2012 11:43 |
| Contributors: | Byrne, Jenny (Author) Downey, Christopher (Author) Souza, Ana (Author) |
| Funder: | University of Southampton Adventures in Research |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Status: | In Press |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/342206 |
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