ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a variety of cases of curriculum dependence and transfer. British educational influences in India were strongly entrenched through a long period of colonial rule. Yet in India, there are strong pre-colonial cultural norms which have a powerful impact and the government of India since 1947 has attempted to develop its own unique approach to curriculum reform. The countries under the greatest political domination by Britain were often those with the weakest indigenous alternatives to British educational philosophy. The USA, France, the Soviet Union and Britain have been not only the centres of distinctive curriculum philosophies. Each has had a major political influence on other parts of the world and, through the impact, educational practices based on the four major curriculum philosophies have been widely diffused. The extent of curriculum dependence does seem to differ greatly between countries in ways that bear little relationship to level of economic development.
