Curriculum & Assessment
Some Policy Issues
- 1st Edition - June 28, 2014
- Latest edition
- Editors: P. Raggatt, G. Weiner
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 9 9 1 3 - 6
An Open University set book, it explores recent changes in curriculum and assessment policy, and examines the trend towards centralized control. It also offers an assessment of… Read more
An Open University set book, it explores recent changes in curriculum and assessment policy, and examines the trend towards centralized control. It also offers an assessment of continuing local authority influences. The selection of articles, though not comprehensive, will be useful to anyone with interest in curriculum and assessment policy.
For undergraduates and postgraduates in policy studies, personnel involved in training and youth work, school heads and managers and policy makers.
Introduction: It's no secret any more: curriculum policy in public view, P Raggatt. The great debate: making an ideology, B Salter & T Tapper. The secondary school curriculum and examinations, House of Commons Education, Sciences and Arts Committee. Utopia deferred: curriculum issues for primary and middle school education, C Richards. Local Education Authorities and the curriculum, M Shipman. Improving secondary schools, Inner London Education Authority. The content and context of educational reform, D Raffe. Towards a tertiary tripartism: new codes of social control and the 17+, S Ranson. Doomsday of a new dawn? The prospects for a common system of examining at 16+, D L Nuttall. A critique of the APU, C Gipps. Index.
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 28, 2014
- Language: English
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