This Special Issue on Curriculum is prefaced by two important interventions in the current debate. The first is Clyde Chitty's wonderfully clear and trenchant critique of the aptly renamed 'Demolition' government's opening months in office. His A Massive Power Grab from Local Communities: the real significance of the 2010 White Paper and the 2011 Education Bill provides a concise and compelling expose of proposals that are about to blight 'future generations of our children - and, in particular, those whose parents lack the social standing and financial clout needed to negotiate your way around our increasingly iniquitous state system.' |
