ABSTRACT
According to the survey, history was the subject consistently claimed to have the strongest modern European dimension, followed by geography. Welsh secondary schools history was considered to have a modern European dimension and Scottish schools geography was thought to contain European content. The results show that schools in Scotland and Wales more often mentioned economics as a vehicle for teaching about modern Europe than schools in England and Northern Ireland. The newer subjects, with the exceptions of Modern Studies which was developed in Scotland, and World Studies taught by 12.5 percent of the Northern Irish schools, were more often mentioned by English and Welsh schools than by Scottish and Northern Irish ones. The most obvious result of the survey is that in all of the schools circularized throughout the British Isles the headteachers considered history, geography and modern languages, in that order, to be the principal subjects in their curricula through which education about modern Europe was taking place.
