Curriculum development occupied an increasingly important place on the educational scene in the mid 1960-s, foreshadowing much of the national debate initiated by the Prime Minister of Britain in late 1976. The agencies for development take different forms in different countries, but the underlying issues are remarkably similar across the globe. It is the basic framework common to all planned curriculum change which The Politics of Curriculum Change (originally published in 1978) is concerned to bring into sharper focus.
A major consideration in embarking on or analysing any curriculum programme is the extent to which it reflects public concerns about education. The notion of the -public curriculum- is a central strand in the authors- argument. It leads naturally into a discussion of mechanisms for control and development, and the political acceptability of new proposals to teachers, parents, pupils, and the public at large. But curriculum change has its internal, as well as i
