The RSA's New Curriculum project is a mainstream contribution to the strategic development of compulsory school education in Britain. At its heart is the development of a curriculum that places as much emphasis on the learning of critical thinking skills or 'competences' as it does on the traditional transmission of facts from teacher to pupil.\n\nOpening Minds: Education for the 21st century was published in June 1999, was the final report of the 'Redefining the Curriculum' consultative stage. Subsequently, the RSA has been working with a number of schools to make a reality of the ideas in the report. It recommended a competence-based curriculum framed around five sets of competences: for learning, managing information, managing people, managing situations, and citizenship. Project schools have developed a number of innovative curriculum initiatives, which they are now putting into practice.\n\nRecords comprise the main published reports of the project
Each pack contains a list of delegates attending the one day Opening Minds Conference held at the RSA, eighteen images from the Archive and teachers notes providing examples on how the image could be used to build lessons around.
Various conference packs and printed material, including application forms, guidance notes and publicity material
Joint publication between the Design Council and the RSA
Includes\n'Attitudes to Learning' - a MORI State of the Nation Poll\n'Make it Happen - your Personal Learning Plan'\n'For Life: a vision for learning in the 21st Century'\n'From the Ivory Tower to the Street - putting learning theory into practice' compiled and edited by Peter Maxted
Conference packs, including publicity material for launch of Campaign for Learning on 24 April 1996