Community,culture and identity: geography,the National Curriculum and Wales |
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| Authors: | Richard Daugherty Sian Jones |
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| Institution: | University of Wales , Aberystwyth |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT The 1988 Education Reform Act legislated for a National Curriculum not for one nation but for two, Wales and England. This article reviews the way in which attempts to develop a distinctive curriculum in Wales for one subject, geography, were thwarted by the dominance among key policy‐makers in England of views about the study of place which were unsympathetic to the idea of the school curriculum being a vehicle for the development of a sense of community and national identity. Drawing on evidence from a survey of secondary school geography teachers in Wales, it considers the extent to which the teaching of geography is seen by teachers as a means of achieving such educational goals. |
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| Keywords: | National Curriculum Wales geography national identity |
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