Professor Kerry Kennedy at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction delivered public lecture on Re-imagining the curriculum of new times: What should future citizens know, value and be able to do? in the University of Johannesburg on 9 February 2017.
He stressed that all societies place great hope in the school curriculum. “Where there is a commitment to liberal democracy, schools have the potential to contribute to a kinder, more humane, more accommodating, more tolerant, more accepting, less confrontationist, less combative, less confronting, less selfish and less hurtful,” said Prof Kennedy.
This lecture focused on current and recent research that has sought to enhance understanding of the curriculum, its function, form and content. It also looked to identify new possibilities for a research agenda that might contribute to the development of future citizens.
