ABSTRACT
In 1972 the Humanities Curriculum Project (HCP) was established in the school and several of the staff involved in that subsequently became members of the sociology team. The HCP was originally intended for pupils of average and below average ability and the philosophy on which it was based had some similarity to that underlying the new sociology course. When asked what the term 'integration' meant in practice in relation to the social studies, careers and health education components of the sociology course, teachers talked of developing "a package that makes more sense", "trying to get some logic into the course", and the "importance of making connections between things". Teachers involved with the sociology course shared a similar view of what the term integration meant, but disagreed about the extent to which they felt that this had been achieved. There also seems to be a need to bear the objective of integration in mind in the production of teaching materials.
