Plowden: mirage, myth, or flag of convenience? Towards a more humane view of curriculum for the 21 st Century  

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Kerry, Trevor

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Improving School vol. 4 no. 1 (Jan. 2001), page 66-72.
Fulltext: 66IS41.pdf (505.94KB)

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’At the heart of the educational process lies the child’. In this unlikely manner begins the Plowden Report (1967), one of the most politically vilified official reports in the modem history of education. How can a report based on such a self-evident truth have become the butt of deep political anger? (We might also ask what that fact tells us about our politicians, but that is a topic for another article.) Why should a report from 1967 be of any relevance to us now? Can it have messages for the future of education in the 21 st Century? Is it possible to return to that self-evident truth as a guiding principle in education, and if so what would it mean? These are the issues for the present article. To begin to answer these points we need first to pose two more questions and to make a preliminary remark. The preliminary remark is that the Plowden Report covered the whole field of primary education, but for the present purposes we shall consider only the areas of it that impinge on curriculum, and curriculum defined as both content and the means by which it is delivered. Then we need to ask first, what did the Plowden Report actually say; and second, what did it not say that it is alleged to have said?

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