Recording of a discussion at the Academy of Ideas Education Forum on 5 December 2019 (http://academyofideas.org.uk/events/archive/in_conversation_martin_robinson_on_curriculum_athena_versus_the_machine).
Martin Robinson talked to teacher and writer Gareth Sturdy, about his latest book, Curriculum: Athena versus the Machine (Crown House Publishing 2019).
The hotly anticipated new work, which follows the popular 'Trivium 21C: preparing young people for the future with lessons from the past', paints a picture of teaching as a profession caught between competing visions. Against the Machine, with its demands for data, order and regulation, stands Athena, the goddess of wisdom – and, perhaps, the curriculum, too.
Covering themes such as the tensions at the heart of curriculum, schools as transmitters of wisdom, and the quest to bring the human back to education, the conversation explores the background to the book and the influence of phenomenology on Robinson’s thinking.
