ABSTRACT
In recent years the curriculum has come increasingly to occupy a central position on the educational agenda. At the same time the curriculum is the focus of much of the enhanced attention being paid to education by the government. The debate about the nature of the school curriculum has been growing apace particularly since the middle of the 1970s, when the educational consensus really began to fall apart. At the same time the curriculum is the focus of much of the enhanced attention being paid to education by the government. It is therefore the recognition of the extreme vulnerability of people's society that accounts for the current obsession with the curriculum. The aim of development of the curriculum is to deal with the curriculum from early childhood to the post-16 stage. Brian Wilcox's contribution attempts to pin down this slippery concept by locating it within related fields such as evaluation, self-evaluation, and curriculum analysis.
