1st Edition

The Common Curriculum Its Structure and Style in the Comprehensive School

By Maurice Holt Copyright 1978
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1978. This book presents how the potential of the comprehensive school could be realized by bringing unity and coherence to its curriculum and organization. Among the subjects considered are value judgments and curriculum design; faculties and the organization of learning; subjects and options; the sixth form; and the timetable as an enabling device. This book goes beyond... Read more

Foreword Professor Denis Lawton  Preface  1. Where We Are Now: Realities and Constraints  2. Ideals and Possibilities: the Common Curriculum and a New Structure  3. Value Judgments and Curriculum Design  4. Faculties and the Organisation of Learning  5. Action and Implementation: Styles of Deliberation and Management  6. The Timetable as an Enabling Device  7. Subjects and Options  8. The Sixth Form School  9. Pastoral Care and Community.  Appendix: Sheredes School: Curriculum and Timetable Structure 

Biography

Maurice Holt

From review of the original publication:

The Common Curriculum is a recommendation for the total organization of a comprehensive school. He rightly wants us to refuse to organize comprehensive schools as if they were grammar/technical/secondary modern schools on the same site, and to establish an appropriate "pattern of purpose and structure" for genuine comprehensive education. It is easy to read, full of useful references, and is an optimistic book: an optimism born of successful practice and therefore entirely credible to experienced teachers.’  Patrick Eavis, The Times Educational Supplement