Transcription of interview with Professor Ferre Laevers
| Heather Reid: | Thank you very much for being today and could you give us a little insight into what you are going to talk to us about at the Learning Festival about? |
| Professor Ferre Laevers: | Well the starting point of course is the Curriculum for Excellence, because I’ve gone through it and seen what it is and my impression anyway is that it is really an opportunity, a great opportunity now for Scotland to move on and develop further quality of education. At the same time, of course, I looked at that from the point of view of the quality indicators that have been developed in our project, Experiential Education, and that’s where I tried to seek elements that may be useful in the next stage which is … there’s the writing of the curriculum, but he real important next stage is the implementation of that. How can we make it work in practice? And I have three entrances, in fact to look at that and to give some support and ideas around that. The first would be to see how more advanced work forms can help to raise the levels of well-being and involvement in children. This well-being and involvement, it’s for me, that’s the second strand … very important to take with you all along the process. But finally I think what a curriculum does is describe how a rich environment should be and what kind of content can be offered. More even, what kind of experiences can be offered and I liked the idea to connect experiences and outcome. And the third approach is looking at outcome and trying to see if you look at the curriculum and go underneath it, try to see what are the key competencies that in fact have to be and will be developed if the curriculum is implemented in a proper way. |
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