Curriculum on the move: the role of English in a Year 7 Cultural Studies programme |
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| Authors: | Debbie Kidd |
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| Institution: | Integrate Arts Education with an Afterword by Elaine Millard, Chair of NATE |
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| Abstract: | This paper describes a curriculum experiment to integrate the English and humanities teaching to a year 7 (age 11) cohort through a pedagogy based on Dorothy Heathcote's work on drama in education. An integrated Cultural Studies programme was devised in order to help students engage with meaningful issues in what Heathcote (1980) terms ‘real and felt’ contexts. As part of the national Creative Partnerships programme, Debbie Kidd, a drama specialist from an Arts organisation, worked with teachers to develop curriculum and pedagogy. The paper describes the project from the perspective of the two outsiders closely involved with the work. Debbie Kidd sets the context and discusses some of the outcomes to date. In an Afterword, Elaine Millard discusses some of the barriers to curriculum integration and argues for greater flexibility in English teaching and it s modes of assessment to make room for more creative engagements. |
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| Keywords: | Creative partnerships integrated curriculum Dorothy Heathcote's mantle of the expert pupil motivation CPD |
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