Using stories to tell curriculum or using curriculum to tell stories

Curriculum development is at the heart of progressive education and is key to the success of learners, but is often difficult to conceptualise. In this paper, elements of storytelling – specifically that of character, setting and the 'problem' – are mapped across curriculum development with clear regard to equality, diversity and inclusion, which are at the heart of modern curriculum developmental investigation. Although written with an arts educational focus in mind, the conceptual ideas are applicable to all areas of education. It is argued that by using this model, which gives integral regard to equality, diversity and inclusion, the experience of the learner(s) and the pace of change, improvement and faculty goodwill is enhanced.