The Secondary Curriculum Design Handbook: Preparing Young People for Their Futures

Brian Male · Mick Waters

dec. 2012 · Bloomsbury Publishing

Om den här e-boken

Schools across the world are struggling to balance the statutory requirements of a national curriculum with their desire to provide the wide, engaging and exciting curriculum that they know children need. Concerns about standards often lead to a narrowing of the curriculum and many schools lack the confidence and approach to design that would enable them to resolve what seems like an impossible dilemma.

In this authoritative yet engaging book, Brian Male and Mick Waters look at how schools can meet the requirements of a national curriculum and yet be flexible enough to meet the needs, interests and concerns of pupils, to be rooted in their lives and localities and to give scope for teachers to use their own creativity.

The Secondary Curriculum Design Handbook is a practical guide to designing a curriculum that will engage children's interest, excite their imaginations and at the same time provide them with the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to live successfully in the 21st Century.

Om författaren

Brian Male is a curriculum design consultant to UNESCO and a director of the Curriculum Foundation. Brian was formerly a head teacher, inspector, advisor, lecturer, and principal consultant to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA).


Mick Waters is Professor of Education at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. Mick was Director of Curriculum at the QCA, after being Chief Education Officer for Manchester. He was a head teacher, lecturer, and then became Head of Birmingham's Advisor and Support Service when Tim Brighouse was CEO.


John Dunford is chair of Whole Education, the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors and WorldWide Volunteering. He was formerly general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, UK.