Školski program zasnovan na ciljevima i unapređivanje društvene kohezije
An Aims-Based School Curriculum And The Promotion Of Social Cohesion

Summary/Abstract: This presentation questions whether a national school curriculum should be planned in a subject-based way, that is by taking for granted from the start that the curriculum should be built largely around a familiar set of traditional school subjects – mother tongue and literature, mathematics, science, history, geography etc. After a brief historical look at how the curriculum came to be conceived in this way, the presentation explores the aims-based alternative to a subject-based curriculum. As things are at present, at least in a country like England, although general, overall aims are laid down nationally for school education, they have little impact on what schools do. Since familiar discrete subjects are the places where curriculum planning effectively begins, it is their internal aims that tend to dominate; and where links are made, eg in official documentation, between subject requirements and general, overall aims, these are often problematic. A suggested aims-based alternative begins from a defensible set of general aims appropriate to a liberal democratic society, covering aims to do with the student’s own wellbeing, his or her moral and civic dispositions, and preparation for work. From these general aims, further more specific aims are derived. These overlap many of the subject-based aims we currently have, but downgrade some of the latter and offer more flexibility than at present for school activities that lie outside traditional subjects or involve elements drawn from a number of them. As an example, defensible aims to do with social cohesion fit well into the liberaldemocratic framework from which this aims-based curriculum begins. The presentation looks at some of the subaims in this area, to do with dispositions and with the kinds of understanding these require; and points to various kinds of student activity lying outside as well as inside subjectfocused work.

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