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Taylor, Chris; Rhys, Mirain; Waldron, Sam – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
The Foundation Phase is a Welsh Government flagship policy of early years education (for 3-7 year-old children) in Wales. Marking a radical departure from the more formal, competency-based approach associated with the previous Key Stage 1 National Curriculum, it advocates a developmental, experiential, play-based approach to teaching and learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Power, Sally; Taylor, Chris – Oxford Review of Education, 2013
This paper explores the complex relationship between social justice and education in the public and private spheres. The politics of education is often presented as a battle between left and right, the state and the market. In this representation, the public and the private spheres are neatly aligned on either side of the line of battle, and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Correlation, Public Education, Private Education
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Taylor, Chris; Fitza, John; Gorard, Stephen – Oxford Review of Education, 2005
School diversity in the UK is not a new phenomenon. However, recent reforms to "modernise" the secondary school system towards greater diversity of provision, primarily in England, needs to be explored in more detail. The article begins by proposing three phases in the development of state-funded school diversity and provision between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Student Diversity, Secondary Education