ABSTRACT
In most cases the innovation was used as an opportunity for using unstreamed groups in schools where streaming was normal. The request to experiment and the absence of a clear blueprint should have encouraged innovations tailored to the conditions in individual schools. The only developed model for curriculum development was Nuffield Science, and most contemporary projects were starting under the Schools Council for the first time. The history of the Keele project started in 1965 when a paper was sent from the Schools Council to teacher organizations, local authorities and universities proposing local and regional centres for curriculum development. The early negotiations not only determined the terms of reference for the Integrated Studies Project once it got down to work, but inadvertently placed it in a politically difficult position. Social studies had for long cut across subject boundaries in the primary schools and now the integration of previously subject-bound areas of knowledge received support in the secondary sector.
