"Knowledge based curricula" in the humanities leave students profoundly incapable for University level work, where they realise that knowledge is infinite and what they actually need is skills. https://twitter.com/SchoolsWeek/status/1345158112655921156

The insistence on knowledge based curricula and knowledge based testing in recent years has necessitated that I develop a whole first year module on helping students understand that learning is not about the internalisation of a predetermined set of facts.

Don't get me wrong -- there are core knowledges required for any higher learning. But what the right-wing obsession with "knowledge based curricula" belies is a fetishism for canons and a deep, abiding terror of critical methods of enquiry.

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

And by the way! By "skills" I don't mean skills for the world of work or life skills or whatever, but skills for academic enquiry and further knowledge acquisition!

@ProfEricAdler Just realised where our disagreement seems to have come from! Penny dropped! By "skills" I resolutely did not mean "skills for employment" but "skills for further learning in the context of a degree and beyond".