School Subject Teaching: The History and Future of the Curriculum

Covering each of the core curriculum areas in turn, this authoritative and unique book will be an essential reference for many involved in education. The authors assess the development of teaching within each subject area since the 1944 Education Act and up to the present day. In doing so the book presents not only an immensely valuable history of the development of teaching in these fields, but also a critical assessment of the factors that drive curriculum development, the latest challenges facing the subjects and an evaluation of the way forward.Each chapter concentrates on curriculum development, research, the subject community, teacher education in that subject, the international context and future challenges