ABSTRACT
The DES paper on the curriculum posited a number of laudable and wide-ranging aims. Its subsequent recommendations for a core curriculum seemed to relegate global awareness to a fringe or optional activity since there is little evidence to show that learning foreign languages gives pupils more than a slight and superficial insight into the wider world. This book argues for education about Europe, not education necessarily in favour of Europe. It shows European education as part of a long overdue process of breaking down the national insularity of the UK curriculum and using Europe as one convenient 'window on the wider world'. In the United Kingdom secondary school curriculum some less able children are taught European Studies, largely in a haphazard and ill-resourced manner. The book shows how this situation can be rectified and what kind of teaching about modern Europe is currently on offer to pupils in secondary schools.
