Introduction - Creating curricula: aims, knowledges, and control Dominic Wyse, Louise Hayward, Kay Livingston and Steve Higgins 1. What is a curriculum and what can it do? Michael Young 2. Knowledge and the curriculum David Scott 3. Pragmatising the curriculum: bringing knowledge back into the curriculum conversation, but via pragmatism Gert Biesta 4. Downgraded curriculum? An analysis of knowledge in new curricula in Scotland and New Zealand Mark Priestley and Claire Sinnema 5. An aims-based curriculum illustrated by the teaching of science in schools Michael J. Reiss and John White 6. Two contrasting Australian Curriculum responses to globalisation: what students should learn or become Bob Lingard and Glenda McGregor 7.

Dysfunctional dichotomies? Deflating bipolar constructions of curriculum and pedagogy through case studies from music and history Tim Cain and Arthur Chapman 8. Curriculum and assessment reform gone wrong: the perfect storm of GCSE English Tina Isaacs.