The value of a knowledge-rich curriculum: An essay collection
Ruth Ashbee, Jeremy Baker, Tom Bennett, Christine Counsell, Tara Dodson, Kasia Glinka, Harry Hudson, Jim Knight, Emma Lennard, Jason Molloy, Ben Newmark, Naomi Pilling, Rebecca Ryman, Clare Sealy, David Steiner, Joshua Vallance, Dylan Wiliam, December 2025
The value of a knowledge-rich curriculum: An essay collection is a multi-author anthology bringing together a wide range of professionals from teaching, education leadership, policy and academia to discuss the aims, impact and potential of a knowledge-rich curriculum approach in schools.
With the goal of engaging school leaders, policymakers, teachers and parents/carers alike, the collection presents contributions ranging from subject-specific accounts of knowledge-rich excellence to discussion of the role that a knowledge-rich curriculum can play in tackling socio-economic disadvantage – alongside seeking to address criticism of a knowledge-rich approach.
Focusing on the English education system, this timely collection closely explores both the thinking underpinning a knowledge-rich approach and the practical realities of its implementation. Comprising an authoritative line-up of 17 authors, The value of a knowledge-rich curriculum: An essay collection therefore sets out to detail how a knowledge-rich approach translates into everyday school life, across both primary and secondary education.
Writing from a variety of professional backgrounds, the collection’s authors draw on their experience to cover questions ranging from the relevance of a knowledge-rich curriculum for all learners and the conditions a knowledge-rich approach requires for success, to the challenges that today’s knowledge-rich education advocates face.
Charting the essential features and promise of a knowledge-rich approach, whilst also engaging with its potential vulnerabilities, The value of a knowledge-rich curriculum: An essay collection offers an invaluable opportunity to enhance understanding of and insight into the merits, practices, debates and classroom realities of a knowledge-rich curriculum.
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