How and why?
Where did this need of change
come from? The main reason seems to be that the current curriculum is out dated
and doesn’t produce the same intelligent children as other education systems
do. But making a five year old start tackling fractions seems a little bit too
much if you ask me; it’s like robbing them of their childhood. I am not saying
they won’t manage but I ask myself at what cost? The end result is clear,
smarter, more creative and more capable individuals which will shape the
England of tomorrow. British PM David Cameron states that the new curriculum is
“engaging and tough” and I begin to wonder how many future pupils will live
make it out ok through this new system and how many will be “left behind”.
Will it be a better system?
From a theoretical aspect it has
all the chances to be better. There are all kinds of new studies and the new
curriculum has taken advantage of them in order to be efficient and
interactive. But all those studies, all those facts and figures mean nothing
when you put them against the unwillingness of a 7 year old boy. Bottom line is
that until the new system hits the school we won’t know for sure how the
children will react. I imagine a pilot project will be launched before in order
to test the waters.
It is true that the old system
focused very little on creativity which now has been placed high on a pedestal
claiming it plays a significant role in any type of job, not only if you are an
artist. Leadership skills, problem solving skills and many other skills are
thinks relatively new which the current curriculum overlooked or didn’t pay
much attention unlike the multinational work environment where these skills are
used on a daily basis. It seems to me that the new curriculum might just be
custom tailored to match the needs of the giant corporations and that the
education system might become a mass robot factory.
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