The Adventurous School: Vision, Community and Curriculum for Primary Education in the Twenty-first Century

by Reed, Jane; Maskell, Kathy; Allinson, David; Bailey, Rosemary; Bates, Fernanda

• ISBN13: 9780854739165
• ISBN10: 0854739165
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-30
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

The Adventurous Schoolis a topical study of innovative and original practice in three primary schools, illustrating how each has been successful. After an introduction and a background chapter, colleagues describe the vision for their school, how it has come about and how they are putting it into practice in adventurous and exciting ways. Second, they describe their local context, who they serve and how they have revisited their purpose as a result of getting to understand more about their local area and setting. Third, they give a picture of how they conceptualize, plan and implement their curriculum and design adventurous learning. Their primary focus is to create real learning for life life as it is now and also life in the future and a broader view of the learning experiences and skills children need to be citizens in the world as it will be in their adult lifetime. The Adventurous Schoollooks at the ways in which these schools have taken the power to make decisions about their school improvement priorities in ways that give their pupils a central and active rather than tokenistic role. It is about learning and leadership for everyone including the pupils. An Adventurous School is one that is creative and ingenious, develops a confident spirit and a hardy disposition, has a map and planned routes but is not rigid about the journey, is evolutionary, travels with others, takes risks, is questing, questioning and enquiring and is there for something more than itself.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	p. viii
Dedication and Acknowledgements	p. x
Foreword	p. xi
About the authors	p. xiii
Adventure!	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The call to adventure: Context, change and challenge for the twenty-first century primary school	p. 15
Vision	p. 34
Let them fly	p. 38
Creating a learning community where everyone can thrive	p. 54
People make your place	p. 68
Community	p. 85
Flying together	p. 89
Varied invitations for a diverse community	p. 103
Understanding and growing our place	p. 116
Curriculum	p. 127
A design for broad, deep, active participation in learning for life	p. 131
Learning to inspire and inspiring to learn	p. 147
Building a sustainable community of adventurous lead learners	p. 161
Leading the Adventurous School	p. 179
Leadership as if the future really matters	p. 180
Conclusion	p. 189
References	p. 197
Index	p. 204
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