ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the effects of schooling on personal development, creativity and the equality of pupil treatment in an area of the curriculum and at a point in the school system where one might reasonably expect to find individual potential being fulfilled. In art and design the relationship between 'greater control and rigour' by teachers and 'freedom for children to do things their own way' is a contentious one which has been widely voiced and recorded. Choice of jobs was implemented by producing models on a simple-to-diflicult scale, whereas 'limited choice' allowed pupils only to make simple modifications to the job set for the whole class. From classroom observation it became clear that limited choice within a set job, some choice of different jobs, and in the case of some pupils freedom to design jobs, all operated within the same classes.
