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Topics: From Muths to Objectives
Author(s) -
Byers Richard
Publication year - 1990
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/j.1467-8578.1990.tb00371.x
Subject(s) - criticism , curriculum , context (archaeology) , national curriculum , work (physics) , mathematics education , pedagogy , curriculum development , sociology , psychology , political science , engineering , geography , mechanical engineering , archaeology , law
The topic method and the objectives approach to learning have each come in for increasing criticism. Will a synthesis of the two work better for pupils with learning difficulties in the new context of the National Curriculum? Richard Byers, a teacher seconded from Riverwalk School, Suffolk Education Authority, to the National Curriculum Development Team (SLD), Cambridge Institute of Education, describes the experimental introduction of 'integrated schemes of work' in special schools.