The Ocean of Education

International Schools' Primary Curriculum It has always been important for children to receive a great education. In the challenging global, interdependent world of the 21st century, it is more important than ever before. But it’s also more difficult than ever. In the same way that far fewer children play football because there are so many other competing things for them to do, so it’s far harder to help young children learn in international school when other parts of their lives can seem so much more attractive, and when so many children are in homes – professional and non-professional – where time for parents to be attentive to their children is at a premium. This is the paradox we inhabit. The need is great and, at the same time, the opposing forces are more powerful than they’ve ever been. Getting a primary curriculum right is more difficult today than it’s ever been because it has to meet multiple goals. Of all those goals, the most essential ones are: Engagi...