Collaborative Approaches to 14-19 Provision - Communities and ...

14-19 PATHFINDERS: THE SECOND YEARimportance of formative processes and summative products which had been an important partof the development of records of achievement in the 1980s (Broadfoot, 1988, 2001) wasevident in discussions around ILPs in some pathfinders. One person responsible for thedevelopment of ILPs insisted that their adoption in schools would require a ‘culture change’involving both relationships between teachers and students and in school organisation. Thisrespondent was not convinced that there was widespread commitment to such change in theschools with which he was familiar.206. Thus, although there was been substantial development activity of ILPs large-scaleimplementation is still some way off in many. The bottom-up approach to development hasbeen welcomed but is a source of frustration to some. A number of staff involved indeveloping ILPs believe the time is now ripe to move to a more common, national approachwhile others argue that this would be premature, or perhaps not desirable at all, in view of thelack of consensus around the purposes of ILPs.68