Change in the School Curriculum: Looking to the Future

Author(s):  
Robyn Baker ◽  
Andy Begg
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2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Cecilia Blengino

<p>This article discusses the resistance experienced by the clinical legal education movement in Italy due to a widespread legal positivist approach which views law as a self-contained technical subject, and excludes interdisciplinarity from the law school curriculum.</p><p>The choice that the newly-born Italian CLE movement now faces is the option to either become a new socio-legal epistemology of law in action and a social change-maker, or to ascribe to a simple restyling of legal education to include certain practical activities aimed at introducing students to the profession. The future of the movement will depend on whether the rapid increase in the number of clinics will be matched by appropriate reflection on "how clinics might be consciously designed around exposing students to gaps between the law in books and the law in action".</p>


2013 ◽  
Vol 97 (538) ◽  
pp. 101-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ormell

As I write (Spring 2012) I am aware that I have been a member of the Mathematical Association for fifty years. I joined during the annual conference in 1962 when Dr Combridge was the main figure in the society. The highlight was a session at the conference (at King's College, London) by Geoffrey Matthews showing how matrices might be introduced into the school curriculum. Some treated this as hilarious, others as a signpost to the future. My friend Frank Budden and I regarded it as a premature ploy, which, we thought, might not tum out to be such a good idea. We subsequently wrote a successful book Mathematics through Geometry (1964) arguing in detail why the modem mathematics revolution—which was then gathering pace—might end in tears. We identified spatial imagination as the heartland of mathematics, and contrasted it with a denial of spatial imagination in the abstract calculi which were all the vogue at the time.


1913 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-246
Author(s):  
Robert J. Aley

As educational thought is now adjusting itself, it seems that the time is not far distant when the secondary school curriculum will be made to meet the needs of those who are to profit by it. The college now has less influence than formerly in shaping the curriculum of the secondary school. It will have still less influence in the future unless it studies the problem from the viewpoint of present conditions and makes many needed adjustments in its requirements. I verily believe that the mathematical study which prepares best for college will prove to be of great value to the student who does not go to college.


Author(s):  
Alyona S. Babenko ◽  
Nataliya L. Margolina ◽  
Tat’yana N. Matytsina ◽  
Kirill Ye. Shiryayev

This article belongs to the field of methodological science that analyzes the interaction of school mathematics with the teaching of mathematical disciplines in higher educational institutions, in particular, to students of pedagogical directions. The article presents two extreme points of view on modern education. The first of them perceives education as a kind of value, completely ignoring the relevance of this or that educational program. The second focuses exclusively on the market conditions of the educational program, perceiving an educational institution as an enterprise in the service sector. The authors of the article criticize both extremes, considering the educational process as a phenomenon that combines the features of both value and market phenomena. Further, in the presented work, an attempt is made to answer the question, is knowledge of only the school curriculum of mathematics sufficient for high-quality professional activity in school as a teacher? The authors of the article unequivocally answer this question - no, not enough. A number of examples are given when the knowledge of university special mathematical disciplines not only contributes to a more perfect knowledge of the taught subject in the future teacher, but is also fundamentally necessary for the formation of specific skills and abilities of the future teacher of mathematics. As examples, such mathematical sections as complex numbers, the theory of limits, the construction of counterexamples, projective geometry, etc. The work also provides links to the professional standard of a pedagogue, adopted in 2019.


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