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Gove's Curriculum and the GERM
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Wrigley, Terry – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
This article examines the complex relationship between England's new National Curriculum and the neoliberal reform of education known as GERM. It explores contradictions between economic functionality and Gove's nostalgic traditionalism. It critiques the new curriculum as narrow, age-inappropriate, obsessed with abstract rules, and poorly focused…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Traditionalism