ABSTRACT
It may seem strange to ask this question at the end, when the question has been posed implicitly or explicitly throughout the book. There are many answers to the question which can be found in the previous chapters, and the main purpose of this chapter is to summarize what has come before, and in doing this to raise a few more issues which may not yet have been dealt with. It might be useful to remind you at this stage that one of the basic purposes of this book was to treat the curriculum as ‘problematical’ rather than something which can safely be taken for granted. I will be looking at the problem of the curriculum and of the question ‘Why Change the Curriculum?’ under four headings: historical, sociological, philosophical and psychological.
