Area based curriculum

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has suggested that schools should have the freedom to develop their own local curriculum to encourage students to learn about their local communities.

In a new paper, 'Area Based Curriculum: Engaging the Local', the RSA says: "Our argument is that knowledges are multiple, overlapping and multi-dimensional. The official, national, canon of knowledge is but one of many that young people - and everyone else - do and could encounter".

Read RSA paper
Read TES article