The Politics of Curriculum Change

The agencies for Curriculum development take different forms in different countries, but the underlying issues are remarkably similar across the globe. It is the basic framework common to all planned curriculum change which The Politics of Curriculum Change (originally published in 1978) is concerned to bring into sharper focus.

Tony Becher was a key figure in British higher education research.

Stuart Maclure was a journalist who began his career with The Times and later became a reporter on the TES. He wrote and edited several books, some during the 1980s strikes that affected Murdoch-owned newspapers. He is the author of Educational Documents: England and Wales, 1816-1963.