The national curriculum should be built around a set of aims rather than a list of separate subjects, say two leading academics.
Professor Michael Reiss and Professor John White believe that instead of starting with the individual requirements of traditional subjects, curriculum planners must first work out the overarching aims required to equip every child to lead a fulfilling life.
In other words, educators and policy-makers should begin by asking what schools are for.
They also say that a non-political national commission should be set up to work out the fundamental aims of the curriculum before any new national curriculum is imposed.
“Both the present national curriculum and the latest proposals for its reform fail too many learners,” they argue.
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