Notes on Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgement

Introduction: Can a Curriculum be National?

Cedric Cullingford

Conceptual Issues in a Centralised Curriculum

Paul Oliver

The Crumbling Shrine: the National Curriculum and the Proposals to Amend it

John Elliott

Secondary School Pupils' Experience of the National Curriculum

Cedric Cullingford

Pupil Perceptions of the National Curriculum

Leroy McDonald

Secondary Subject Teaching and the Development of Pupil Values

Bob Butroyd

Excluded or Empowered: The National Curriculum and Exclusions

Robert Berkeley

Exploring the Policy Influence of England's National Curriculum on School Exclusion: A Dilemma of Intended Entitlement and Unintended Exclusion?

E. Rustique-Forrester

Horse Before the Cart: Developing an Evidence-Based Approach to Educational Policy

Fay Smith

Frank Hardman

National Curriculum Subjects are Repositories of Values that are Under-Explored

Bob Butroyd

ICT in the National Curriculum - Revised but not Resolved

Matthew Pearson

Conclusion: Logic, Rationality and the Curriculum