The Big Ideas

  1. Experimental Science: the human being anf the natural world (science teachers)
  2. Culture and Change: the human being, cultural identity and cultural interaction (humanities teachers)
  3. The Human Being: a course of Study, what it is, or means, to be a human being in Europe, in a country, in a local region, in a family, as an individual. This could involve human rights, ethnicity, conflict resolution and identity (language and literature teachers).

The thread of the human being runs through all, giving rise to the possibility of dialogue across Big Ideas. The Big Idea groupings allow teachers to work together with teachers from related subjects, albeit from different educational systems, while individually shaping the materials generated towards their own specific subject curriculum. It has been recognized from the outset that it is outside the scope of PACE to make changes in a school’s curriculum, but it can enable existing curricula to be delivered through the lens of a Big Idea using new methods of teaching.

 

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