The politics of primary curricula

Abstract

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsKen LawsonKen Lawson has taught primary children since 1964 in Liverpool, London and Bristol. He is now deputy head of an 8–12 school in Dorset. His article is concerned not with the politics of nationalism or political parties, but with politics in a wider sense — providing children with an individual and collective sense of identity in time and space, giving them opportunities for the exploration of shared experience, making them aware of ‘the responsibilities and privileges of communality’. He is clearly committed to that third and most neglected political ideal, fraternity.