Written by an experienced headteacher and curriculum consultant, this book will help schools with the task of planning the whole curriculum. It should prove of great value to all those teachers, governors, administrators and students who are concerned with the art of whole curriculum planning. It provides, in one volume, invaluable information on national educational policies, approaches to curriculum planning, and the structures of actual schools.
After the recent years of debate, the Department of Education and Science has issued Circular 6 of 198 l, which calls upon education authorities, governing bodies, heads and the staffs of schools to secure a planned and coherent curriculum within the schools'. The book describes the background to this development; spells out the tasks which are involved; provides a series of exercises which will be useful for planning and discussion; and serves as a source of ideas, questions and methods. It offers tools, not rules; it recognises the diversity of school circumstances, and thus helps the reader to make the vital transition from theory to practice.