Cullingford, Cedric; Oliver, Paul

'This text is recommended to educational psychologists, not as a source of ideas to apply in day-to-day practice, but as an opportunity to reflect on the values (or lack of them) that underpin the daily diet of children in school.' Debate

• Contents: Introduction: can a curriculum be national?, Cedric Cullingford; Conceptual issues in a centralised curriculum, Paul Oliver; The crumbling shrine: the national curriculum and the proposals to amend it, John Elliott; Secondary school pupils’ experience of the national curriculum, Cedric Cullingford; Pupil perceptions of the national curriculum, Leroy McDonald; Secondary subject teaching and the development of pupil values, Bob Butroyd; Excluded or empowered: the national curriculum and exclusions, Robert Berkeley; Exploring the policy influence of England’s national curriculum on school exclusion: a dilemma of intended entitlement and unintended exclusion?, E. Rustique-Forrester; Horse before the cart: developing an evidence-based approach to educational policy, Fay Smith and Frank Hardman; National curriculum subjects are repositories of values that are under-explored, Bob Butroyd; ICT in the national curriculum - revised but not resolved, Matthew Pearson; Conclusion: logic, rationality and the curriculum, Paul Oliver.