From the response by GA member Anum Irshad on the GA's Curriculum Consultation page...
I feel the GA’s proposed curriculum can be viewed as a breath of fresh air, as the flexibility and scope it provides encourages teachers to use their “synoptic capacity” (Brooks, 2007 cited in Lambert and Morgan, 2010), which helps practically in the classroom and to plot a progressive national curriculum. The proposal also supports Sachs’ (2003) (cited in Lambert and Morgan, 2010) idea of an “activist profession”, where teachers can take responsibility for the curriculum and mobilise it in order to re-establish trust with students, communities, parents and various other groups. It ultimately provides teachers with the autonomy they have been longing for.
I feel the GA’s proposed curriculum can be viewed as a breath of fresh air, as the flexibility and scope it provides encourages teachers to use their “synoptic capacity” (Brooks, 2007 cited in Lambert and Morgan, 2010), which helps practically in the classroom and to plot a progressive national curriculum. The proposal also supports Sachs’ (2003) (cited in Lambert and Morgan, 2010) idea of an “activist profession”, where teachers can take responsibility for the curriculum and mobilise it in order to re-establish trust with students, communities, parents and various other groups. It ultimately provides teachers with the autonomy they have been longing for.
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