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What Should Everyone Know?
Location: United Kingdom, London
Address: RSA, WC2N 6EZ
Date: Monday 22 March 2010
Time: 18:00
Link: http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/what-should-everyone-know
Escape Route: Career Change | Education & Academia
Description:
What should every member of our society know? What is the knowledge we feel is worth teaching all young people during their time at school, and what is that knowledge for?
Far from resolving questions of what a national entitlement for learning should entail, the introduction of the National Curriculum has ensured that they remain hotly contested. While some argue passionately for the importance of abstract and content-rich knowledge, and the profound intellectual heritage this implies, others campaign for the value of life-skills, methodology, practical capabilities and know-how. Many, however, find the distinction increasingly unhelpful, and seek a new debate that asks more profound questions about what knowledge is most important and why.
