Skill-centred teaching

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David Oliver

Integration of subject-matter is a marked feature of ‘open schooling’; it is fast establishing itself as part of the accepted orthodoxy at the primary stage of education. But there are cogent objections to integration just as there are to class-based subject teaching. David Oliver outlines a philosophy-in-action which combines individual learning with a concern for the skills associated with distinct forms of knowledge. He sees great dangers in making education too ‘open’, too diffuse. He presents an alternative programme.