Will peel down curriculum – and expecting trouble – Dagbladet.no

Powerful curriculum cuts in all school subjects needed to get away from the current superficial learning, says Education Minister Thorbjorn Røer Isaksen (H).

Røe Isaksen forecasts a full review and revision of all of today’s schoolwork, when he Wednesday put forward a new white paper whether the school’s content.

the most important measures are sharp cuts in the number of topics and learning objectives in the various subjects.

This is in line with the recommendation from Ludvigsen Committee, which until last summer stated that Norwegian schools are characterized by fabric hustle and superficial learning.

– Today, students should learn as much in every subject that teachers need to rush through the syllabus without students in real terms have brought with them what they should, says Isaksen said.

He will have fewer courses and more depth learning to ensure that students have a good enough understanding of the fundamental aspects of the subjects.

Ready for argument

minister says he expects trouble when tug of war over what actually need out of the curriculum starts.

– It is enough to be controversy, because although everyone agrees that something must be out, so not all agree on what this something should be, says Isaksen.

He will not even say anything about what topics it may be appropriate to withdraw. The job should be outsourced to broad professional committee consisting of school organizations, school owners, teachers and researchers.

He said the clear political order for the samples to arrive at curricula that go to “core” of subjects and is less extensive than today.

Within three years the minister will have suggestions for new and trimmed curricula back on the table.

Life Mastery

Isaksen introduced simultaneously three new interdisciplinary subject that will be incorporated into all school subjects: Democracy and citizenship, sustainable development and public health and coping with life.

– To strengthen training in democratic understanding in school is perhaps more important now than ever before during my lifetime. It is a response to a society that is going to be more diverse, and where threats to democracy have increased in terms of increased extremism and radicalization, says Isaksen.

Increased focus on life skills are also important, says Isaksen .

– the school must help to equip students for a society where there is quite a lot of pressure on young people. This will involve everything from mental health to financial management, he says.

– Halvorsen would be ridiculed

OR call message a gratifying turnaround from Røe Isaksen.

– Think what Right would have said if Kristin Halvorsen (former Minister for SV, eds. note.) in his time had suggested more space for coping with life and democratic understanding in schools.

– She had been ridiculed and accused of Right to not be concerned with knowledge. It’s incredibly gratifying if Torbjørn Røe Isaksen with this final break with rightwing narrow view of knowledge, says SV leader Audun Lysbakken said.

He praises while Isaksen to go in for more depth learning in school.

– it is fully in line with the recommendations of Ludvigsen Committee, and with the criticism that has come from academic and political circles against the Conservatives’ narrow view of knowledge, says Lysbakken.

(NTB).