The Curriculum: Theory and Practice

This successful text provides an overview of the major areas of curriculum theory. It offers teachers, student teachers and others the kind of understanding they need as a basis for the planning and execution of their work.

Such an awareness has become even more important since The Curriculum was first published, because of the increased understanding which has been acquired in the intervening years, and the accelerating shift towards more centralised control of the curriculum, resulting in the 1988 Education Act and the establishment of The National Curriculum in the United Kingdom.

The revisions which the author has made to this third edition reflect and take account of major changes in the educational climate.

`The Fourth Edition of this comprehensive and in-depth guide to the curriculum re-aserts the values and principles put forward in previous editions.. This book will be a welcome addition to current educational debate and will be of particular interest to senior managers within schools and those involved with policy-making from the highest level down' - Educational Review

`The book is written in a manner that is appropriate for most of the target audience and the reader is taken through the arguments in a considered, effective and coherent way. As Kelly so effectively points out, the previous and present governments do not appear to believe in education, but only control and training. Their's is a different mindset, and so this book will not speak to them. Its great strength is that it builds on the previous editions while arguing for change' - Goldsmiths Journal of Education