{"id":176,"date":"2008-01-22T14:29:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-22T14:30:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:30:02","slug":"what_are_schools_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2008\/01\/22\/what_are_schools_for\/","title":{"rendered":"What are schools for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures &amp; Commerce) is starting a new series of lectures on education with a talk by Michael Young, Professor of Education, Lifelong Education and International Development, Institute of Education, University of London. The lecture promo says &#8220;Our schools curriculum is still built around a nineteenth century classification of subjects. Does an information-driven curriculum equip young people adequately for adult life in the 21st century, or do we need new curricula that develop skills in a more systematic and progressive way? Can we develop the potential of every pupil by reforming the content and the method of what we teach them?&#8221; There is an online discussion thread, which makes interesting reading, or if you live in London, you can book for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/events\/detail.asp?eventID=2451\">lecture<\/a> itself -it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2372\/1762057813_cc3d999298_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Death Valley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/events\/detail.asp?eventID=2451\">http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/eve&#8230;sp?eventID=2451<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures &amp; Commerce) is starting a new series of lectures on education with a talk by Michael Young, Professor of Education, Lifelong Education and International Development, Institute of Education, University of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/2008\/01\/22\/what_are_schools_for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/moirabent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}