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Huh: Curriculum conversations between subject and senior leaders (Paperback)
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Huh: Curriculum conversations between subject and senior leaders (Paperback)
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Schools need to have purchase on the curriculum: why they teach the
subjects beyond preparation for examinations, what they are
intending to achieve with the curriculum, how well it is planned
and enacted in classrooms and how they know whether it's doing what
it's supposed to. Fundamental to this understanding are the
conversations between subject leaders and their line managers.
However, there is sometimes a mismatch between the subject
specialisms of senior leaders and those they line manage. If I
don't know the terrain and the importance of a particular subject,
how can I talk intelligently with colleagues who are specialists?
This book sets out to offer some tentative answers to these
questions. Each of the national curriculum subjects is discussed
with a subject leader and provides an insight into what they view
as the importance of the subject, how they go about ensuring that
knowledge, understanding and skills are developed over time, how
they talk about the quality of the schemes in their departments and
what they would welcome from senior leaders by way of support. We
have chosen this way of opening up the potentially difficult
terrain of expertise on one side and relative lack of expertise on
the other, by providing these case studies. They are suggested as
prompts rather than the last word. Informed debate is, after all,
the fuel of curriculum development. And why Huh? Well, 'Huh?' may
be John's first response when he walks into a Year 8 German class
but, in fact, we chose 'Huh' as the title of our book as he is the
Egyptian god of endlessness. As Claire Hill so eloquently comments
in her chapter, "Curriculum development is an ongoing process; it's
not going to be finished, ever." And we believe that 'Huh' captures
a healthy and expansive way of considering curriculum
conversations.
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