ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between the espoused values of teachers, and those enacted through practice. It examines how teachers attempted to engage the pupils with the values evident in the classroom. The chapter also examines how pupils reacted to the values encountered in National Curriculum English and Science, and considers whether pupils engaged with the values that teachers said were important in their classrooms. The chief executive of the schools curriculum and assessment authority (SCAA), felt that schools were threatened by 'political correctness' and that they were afraid of instilling the difference between 'right and wrong'. SCAA responded to this perceived crisis through a consultation process, which sought to discover a level of agreement on the values that schools should promote on society's behalf. Subsequently, they commissioned a pilot project to promote pupil's spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
