Chapter eight

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Chapter Eight

Concluding Comments

The Interim Review Task Force has wrestled with many aspects of its remit, some of the pressures creating conflict situations. The Task Force has been at pains not to suggest wholesale and radical change but to suggest revisions or modifications to the curriculum in certain key areas.

Within its various deliberations the Task Force identified the need for further deep thinking about the curriculum, about the manner in which that was presented and the manner in which computer science is taught. This reflected a perspective that there was considerable scope for presenting computer science in new and different ways that could be more in tune with the interests and the aspirations of today’s generation of young people. It remains important to engage them, to challenge them, to direct them and to provide them with an education that would encourage them to be innovative and influential, and to contribute to the discipline and its well-being in some sense. But there is a need for greater clarity over what this means in practice and how the community should be advised.

The main value of a curriculum guideline document is that it is a guideline, not a prescription. That is, its main value is as a reference document that can help guide the development of a curriculum to meet local needs, or as a reference for evaluating an existing curriculum for possible improvement.

In short, many challenges remain for the curriculum designer.

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