The National Grid for Learning: A curriculum without walls?
- 1 March 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Cambridge Journal of Education
- Vol. 30 (1) , 91-110
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03057640050005799
Abstract
The aim of the British Government's National Grid for Learning policy is to harness the power of information and communications technology (ICT) in order to create a 'curriculum without walls', where the riches of the world's intellectual, cultural and scientific heritage are available to all. Central to this vision are the assumptions that: all pupils will in the future have appropriate access to computers at home and at school; that there is a common conception between home and school as to what actually constitutes learning. In this paper the authors draw on preliminary findings from a 2 year study of how young people actually utilise ICT at home and at school to raise important questions about the realisation of the Government's policy objectives.Keywords
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