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Focus on Practice: Experience and Achievement: Initiatives in Curriculum Development for Pupils with Severe and Profound and Multiple Learning Difficuties
Author(s) -
Byers Richard
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8527.00136
Subject(s) - curriculum , pedagogy , mathematics education , curriculum development , psychology , focus (optics) , national curriculum , physics , optics
Richard Byers, education consultant and part‐time lecturer at the University of Cambridge School of Education, challenges recent thinking on the teaching of subjects to pupils with learning difficulties. He emphasises that school‐centred and innovative practices in curriculum development should be fully recognised and the role of experience and achievement thoroughly explored.