EDUCATIONAL THEORIES

The Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum and Educational Theories

The Rose Review of the Primary Curriculum and Educational Theories

Introduction

Each of the tutors of early years in education plays an important role in establishing a framework that is the foundation of the core curriculum and the cornerstone in schools today. This article will look at some of these teachers of the theory, philosophy and concepts and how they relate to early childhood education today in relation to the Jim Rose Review.

Discussion

"Literacy" is actually a collection of skills that include communication, presentation and access, analysis and synthesis of information, as well as reading, writing, speaking and listening (and I like to focus more on the latter two), so it would be useful break it into components.

The report refers to ICT a lot, but it seems to be the view of ICT as having a lot of their own core competencies and skills that need to be taught. Of course, good ICT skills, such as access and analyze information on the Internet, should be developed discretely, and then applied throughout the curriculum. But these really "ICT skills, or they are in fact the study of communication and thinking.

Thus, the answer to my first question above seems to be yes, skills and attitudes will be given greater emphasis in the new curriculum, while the second remains unanswered, but signs of worry, because the focus still seems to be on those who are tired of the conditions, literacy, numeracy and ICT, rather than on a broader or more specific set of skills. I hope to be proved wrong, but I doubt the ability of the subject associations to agree on what's important - a bunch of historians and geographers and scientists will never agree that it is essential that they are simply a compromise, and we end up with too a lot of content (Dubois, 2006, p. 13).

I also think the opportunity is now skipped to sort out priorities. Mathematics is simply not to be regarded as of equal importance for literacy. Should not be science. As far as I know, most countries place literacy at the top of the tree, with a second math and science on a par with almost everything else. Arguing that math and science are of equal importance of literacy only political posturing.

Much more thought must go into deciding what skills and approaches must be defined in the new curriculum.

Six areas of learning

The main headline-making section of the report includes six areas of study:

Understanding of English, communication and languages;

Mathematical understanding;

Scientific and technical understanding;

Human, social and environmental awareness;

An understanding of physical health and well-being;

An understanding of art and design.

I must admit, I did not quite get the meaning of it all. Of the six advantages mentioned in the report, none of them sounds particularly convincing, and I think the emphasis on getting the primary curriculum in line with the early learning nonsense (for example, driving a horse ...