Update on What is Going on in Scottish Education

Update on What is Going on in Scottish Education?

One of my readers kindly left this comment. The links are without doubt good resources for understanding why we are where we are. My gratitude to Sheila for her research.

Much of the "debate" regarding the CfE has been along traditional v progressive lines. This is a distraction.

These articles are well worth reading:

The hidden politics of the Curriculum for Excellence

http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/guest-commentary/the-hidden-politics-of-the-curriculum-for-excellence-1.920583

The curriculum of confidence tricks

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2466457

Emotions and personality not measurable

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6027077

And on a lighter note :)

Collapse of a decent education is deafening
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6029218

The consequences of changing to an outcome based system have hardly been discussed at all afaics.

http://www.answers.com/topic/outcome-based-education

To vastly over simplify, what may be a sensible and useful educational model in many cases(eg a first aid certificate) is unbelievably dangerous when it means state set outcomes for every area of a person's life.

For a quick example here are the CfE's health and wellbeing experiences and outcomes:

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/curriculumforexcellence/healthandwellbeing/outcomes/alloutcomes.asp

The CfE also has to be seen as an integral part of Getting it right for every child, Aka Gathering Information for every citizen - these forms should give you a flavour:

http://www.forhighlandschildren.org/htm/girfec/gir-publications/phnr-separate-forms-nov08/phnr-v4-contents.pdf

All this is then stored in the eCare system:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/924/0009673.pdf

This has recently been picked up here:

http://theconservativeblog.co.uk/?p=3140

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