32 pages
A5
ISBN-10: 1 85856 191 4
ISBN-10: 978 185856 191 2
This title was published in September 1999

In this provocative paper Colin Richards uses his immense professional experience and a keen sense of history to analyse the primary school curriculum and the consequences of repeated changes on the exhausted teachers who deliver it.

But the paper is far more than a brilliant critique: it is also a blueprint for rationality, opportunity and hope for all those who will teach and receive the primary curriculum in the coming century it deserves a place in the inspiration corner of every staffroom.

Colin Richards is Professor of Education at St. Martin's College and Chair of the Association for the study of Primary Edcation.