Middle Years Programme
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IB Education: Internationalism or Globalism?
I found this presentation really interesting in my reading for the “Culture and Curriculum” section of the Curriculum Studies unit. Dr. James Cambridge discusses how internationalism and globalism serve as contexts for international education. Click to view (SlideServe doesn’t embed… Continue reading
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Whose Culture? Whose Curriculum?
Culture before curriculum Denis Lawton, in Class, Culture and the Curriculum (1975), defines culture as everything that has been created by humans in society, including tools, technology, language, literature, attitudes and values: the whole way of life. He suggests that school… Continue reading
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“Now that’s what I call Curriculum” The MYP as a Greatest Hits album
Over the last couple of days I’ve been reading about ‘Knowledge and the Curriculum‘ as part of the Curriculum Studies unit. Through the tasks set in the MA online resources, I’ve been re-familiarising myself with ideas about curriculum, largely through David… Continue reading
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“Stick ’em with the pointy end.” Curriculum Studies, Game of Thrones & the MYP
What is Curriculum? The image above was used in a stimulus for a set of activities to complete as part of the Bath MA in International Education. It immediately triggered imagery of Game of Thrones, my other holiday project. So… Continue reading
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Areas of Interaction Workshop: A Quick Reflection
Tomorrow we’re back to work, after a long weekend for Golden Week, preceded by a long weekend in Singapore on a Category 3 Areas of Interaction workshop with a colleague. With a ton of work to shift and the faculty… Continue reading
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