The Corruption of the Curriculum
Book Details
ISBN / ASINB004N62QEU
ISBN-13978B004N62QE6
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
The authors of this book examine the British National Curriculum from several different perspectives and concentrate on various subject areas. The uniting theme between these essays is the argument that the subjects in the school curriculum used to be regarded as discrete areas of knowledge which would be imparted to pupils by teachers motivated by a love of learning, but that this has not been enough for recent governments who see schools as a means of promoting social and political goals that may or may not relate to traditional academic disciplines.The contributors to this book argue that we need to return to the traditional view of education as a means of transmitting a body of knowledge from one generation to the next, and that academic rigour and respect for the professionalism of teachers should take precedence over political manipulation of the curriculum.
Leader column, Daily Telegraph, June 11th
A devastating study by the think tank Civitas shows that it is
possible to leave school with almost no knowledge of English literature and only the merest acquaintance with British history.
Max Hastings, Daily Mail, June 12th
Education today is a form of child abuse - Yesterday's report on
British education from the independent think-tank Civitas represents a dispatch from the battlefield describing a national catastrophe. It is no surprise that pupils learn so little because so much curriculum time has been hijacked for the peddling of propaganda about racism, gender awareness, environmentalism and suchlike.
The Times, June 12th
The school curriculum has been "hijacked" to promote fashionable causes, such as gender awareness, with too little focus on the acquisition of knowledge, a report suggests (Alexandra Frean writes). Instead of giving pupils a factual grounding, teachers are expected to help to achieve government goals, according to the right-of-centre think-tank Civitas.
Richard Littlejohn, Daly Mail, June 12th
If I'd sat down and written a spoof exam paper which used the
speeches of Osama Bin Laden as a basis for a history lesson, plenty of you would have written to me and said: 'I think you've gone a bit far this time, Rich.' But this is exactly what's happening in Britain's schools.
Leader column, Daily Telegraph, June 11th
A devastating study by the think tank Civitas shows that it is
possible to leave school with almost no knowledge of English literature and only the merest acquaintance with British history.
Max Hastings, Daily Mail, June 12th
Education today is a form of child abuse - Yesterday's report on
British education from the independent think-tank Civitas represents a dispatch from the battlefield describing a national catastrophe. It is no surprise that pupils learn so little because so much curriculum time has been hijacked for the peddling of propaganda about racism, gender awareness, environmentalism and suchlike.
The Times, June 12th
The school curriculum has been "hijacked" to promote fashionable causes, such as gender awareness, with too little focus on the acquisition of knowledge, a report suggests (Alexandra Frean writes). Instead of giving pupils a factual grounding, teachers are expected to help to achieve government goals, according to the right-of-centre think-tank Civitas.
Richard Littlejohn, Daly Mail, June 12th
If I'd sat down and written a spoof exam paper which used the
speeches of Osama Bin Laden as a basis for a history lesson, plenty of you would have written to me and said: 'I think you've gone a bit far this time, Rich.' But this is exactly what's happening in Britain's schools.
