Introduction

The papers written by Ingrid Carlgren & Daniel Kallos, David Sander, and Gaby Weiner were all first presented at the AERA York in April 1996. Comments were presented by Herbert Kliebard and Lyn Yates. After the conference, the contributors were asked to review their manuscripts. I want to thank the writers for their cooperation in my editorial efforts. This publication has partly been financed through a grant from the Swedish National Agency for Education.

Ingrid Nilsson

Contents

Ingrid Carlgren & Daniel Kallós: The End of Idealism or Whatever Happened to the Swedish Comprehensive School? Further lessons from a Comprehensive School System for Curriculum Theory and Research.

David Hamilton: Reconstructing the Deconceptualists: on the recent history of curriculum theorising in England and Wales.

Theodor Sander: Curriculum Change and didactics/curriculum theory in Germany in a twenty year perspective.

Gaby Weiner: Unanticipated Equalities: The changing context in the UK of the curriculum and Gender.

Herbert M Kliebard: Do Government Education Policies Affect the Curriculum? Reactions to Papers Presented at the Symposium Curriculum Theory and Research Revisited after Twenty Years. Is Europe Still Ahead?

Lyn Yates: European Curriculum Theory and Research Revisited after Twenty Years: Is Europe Still Ahead?