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Curricula Of Home: This chapter will explore some of the limits set on pupils in the early years of primary education by traditional English attitudes towards modem foreign languages, as well as the wider issue of learning opportunities afforded young children by their families, schools, communities and the society in which they are participants: what do our children learn from the informal curricula of home, school and other services?
The Bullock Report (1975) was the first to acknowledge that to lose one's first language is to lose one's culture and identity: 'No child should be expected to cast off the language and culture of the home as she crosses the school threshold, and the curriculum should reflect that part of his life' (Bullock 1975, p. 286). The Committee recommended changes in objectives, curricula and methodology in language education.
For each custom home design plan, he sends his team of stone and timber experts into the forests of Northern New England to find giant boulders, entire trees or 8-ton Granite stones that become the signature elements of each custom built home.
When asked about the use of such unusual materials in his design Nold said, "When a client wants their weekend, or second home to provide retreat and renewal far from their primary home - this distance is not measured just in miles, but in the emotions their home evokes. |
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