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Carnie, Fiona, Ed.; Large, Martin, Ed.; Tasker, Mary, Ed. – 1996
Has the revolution in British education over the past 15 years brought about greater educational freedom? Have parents gained freedom of choice under the neo-market system? Or has state influence over curriculum and instruction increased so much that choice and diversity have become a chimera? This collection of colloquium papers tries to answer…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
Williams, A. P. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Leadership, 1994
Addresses effects of the (UK) Education Reform Act of 1988 on three linked components of outdoor education: outdoor pursuits, outdoor studies, and residential experience. Argues that curriculum changes completely fragment the cross-curricular value of outdoor education and fundamentally undermine the role of perhaps the most significant process of…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, British National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
