Overview

This book is about curriculum change in secondary schools and shows how the quality of education has been affected by increasing intervention of central government. Based on the story of one secondary school between 1957 and 2002, Norman Evans follows the changing contexts of: - before and after the introduction of the National Curriculum - the changing role of LEAs and governors - the characteristics since 1992 of school inspections responsible for policing the operation of the national tests - predictions of results and examination results - nationally set targets - compliance with detailed prescription of school curricula. This is a one-school story seen through the eyes of seven successive head teachers and long-serving assistant staff who worked at the school during the forty-year period. How did the changes affect what they sought to do as professionals? This story takes curriculum as the main engine of a school's development and so takes the quality of education as the result of the relationship between what happens in classrooms and what happens in the school as a whole. It is a two-way flow. Where has it taken us?

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Author:   Norman Evans
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780713002423

ISBN 10:   0713002425
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   25 August 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Curriculum explorations: the first headship, Norman Evans, 1957–673 Curriculum development with a difference: the second headship, John Werner, 1967–74 4 Curriculum intervention begins: the third headship, Margaret Lynch, 1974–83 5 Curriculum change as trouble shooter: the fourth headship, Andrew Parsons, 1983–88 6 Curriculum revolution: the fifth headship, Neil Hunter, 1988–95 7 Curriculum on the slide: the sixth headship, Allan Deacon, 1995–2000 8 Curriculum recovered: the seventh head, Sheila Storey, 2000–4 9 Curriculum roundabout 10 Reflections: personal and professional

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Norman Evans has had a lifetime involvement with institutional and curriculum change in schools and higher education and is currently Trustee, Learning from Experience Trust and Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths College and London Metropolitan University, UK.

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