Changing Teaching Practices - using curriculum differentiation to respond to students’ diversity

From the Introduction:

One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is the growing number of persons who are excluded from meaningful participation in the economic, social, political and cultural life of their communities. Such a society is neither efficient nor safe. Education is seen as key to enhancing people’s capabilities and widening their choices in order to enjoy the freedoms that make life meaningful and worthwhile.

Firstly, the skills provided by basic education, such as being able to read and write, are valuable in their own right.

Secondly, education can ameliorate other more negative features of life. For example, free and compulsory primary education reduces child labour.

Thirdly, education has a powerful role in empowering those who suffer from social and economic devaluation. Universal education, attained by all, has a unique and fundamental impact in addressing social and economic barriers within a society and is therefore central to realising human freedoms.