ABSTRACT
Mrs Smith has been recently appointed as the head teacher of Anytown Junior School. This has a solid middle-class intake and has done well in its Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) inspections and with recent Standard Assessment Tests and Tasks (SATs) scores. However, she is concerned that the curriculum has become rather narrow, and is keen to foster children’s wider educational and social development. Although Mrs Smith has support from most of the staff in this, the governors and many parents have very traditional views of education. They mainly want an emphasis on skill achievements, with a curriculum-centred and didactic approach to teaching. How could Mrs Smith try to convince them that there are other ways of approaching education?
