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Community, culture and identity: geography, the National Curriculum and Wales
Author(s) -
Daugherty Richard,
Jones Sian
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
the curriculum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1469-3704
pISSN - 0958-5176
DOI - 10.1080/0958517990100308
Subject(s) - national curriculum , curriculum , dominance (genetics) , national identity , sociology , identity (music) , pedagogy , curriculum development , subject (documents) , geography , political science , library science , law , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , politics , acoustics , computer science , gene
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.