Curriculum for Excellence: transformational change or business as usual?

Citation

Priestley M (2010) Curriculum for Excellence: transformational change or business as usual?. Scottish Educational Review, 42 (1), pp. 23-36. http://www.scotedreview.org.uk/view_issue.php?id=42[1]

Abstract
Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) is a good example of a new breed of national curriculum; a curricular model that seeks to combine top-down government prescription with bottom-up school-based curriculum development by teaching professionals. However, in developing a renewed view of teachers as agents of change and relaxing curriculum prescription, CfE has attracted criticism for its vagueness in terms of content and for a mix-and-match approach and seemingly atheoretical design. This paper engages in a critique of CfE, and proposes a process by which practitioners may make sense of and enact the new curriculum.  The full text of this work will be available on the Scottish Educational Review journal home page: http://www.scotedreview.org.uk/content/2010/42[1]/

Keywords
; Education Scotland Curricula; Curriculum planning Scotland; Scotland Scottish Executive

Journal
Scottish Educational Review: Volume 42, Issue 1

People

Professor Mark Priestley

Professor, Education