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A school curriculum to address global challenges: bringing together aims-based education and powerful knowledge

Markwick, Andy; Reiss, MIchael; (2024) A school curriculum to address global challenges: bringing together aims-based education and powerful knowledge. Forum , 66 (2) pp. 79-89. 10.3898/forum.2024.66.2.10.

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Abstract

Today’s school students are faced with complex and harmful global challenges that they will need to address. The ability to think critically and creatively, to work in interdisciplinary teams and to understand the importance of a healthy planet for all life will be key to success. Education, including school education, has a major role in helping humanity achieve this. We argue that transformations in both the curriculum and teaching are required. We draw upon Young’s (2008) ‘powerful knowledge’ and the rather different approach of an ‘aims-based curriculum’ found in Reiss and White (2013) to propose curricula and associated pedagogies that can potentially address the global challenges of our times. We offer examples of what learning might look like to achieve these aims, paying particular attention to school science education, as science will need to play an important role if these global challenges are to be successfully met.

Type: Article
Title: A school curriculum to address global challenges: bringing together aims-based education and powerful knowledge
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2024.66.2.10
Publisher version: https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-66-issue-...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: global challenges; powerful knowledge; aims-based curriculum; pedagogy; curriculum; school science
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195137
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