Change and the Curriculum

PART ONE: THE CONCEPT OF CHANGE/Response to the Notion of Change/Technological Change and Social Change/Education and Change/Concepts of Curriculum/Summary and Conclusions/PART TWO: EDUCATIONAL CHANGE: A THEORETICAL OVERVIEW/Curriculum Change/The Background/Early Theories of Curriculum Change/Recent and Emergent Theoretical Perspectives/Summary and Conclusions/PART THREE: NATIONAL AGENCIES AND CURRICULUM CHANGE/Agencies for Supporting Curriculum Change and Development/The Impact of Agencies for Assessment and Monitoring/Agencies for Policy Implementation and Control/Summary and Conclusions/PART FOUR: SCHOOL-CENTRED INNOVATION/School-Centred Innovation/The Origins/School-Based Curriculum Development/Action Research/School Self-Evaluation and School-Based Review/Summary and Conclusions/PART FIVE: CURRICULUM CHANGE AND EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE/Rhetoric/The Legitimation of Discourse/Summary and Conclusions