ABSTRACT
Kelly discusses the idea of an educational curriculum namely a curriculum that is justifiable in educational terms. A curriculum based on such principles is, he argues, likely to be truly educational. The discussion that follows serves to demonstrate the ways in which the school curriculum, including the geography curriculum, has been subject to a range of different influences that have had and continue to have profound effects on the kind of geography curriculum, national and otherwise, that teachers end up teaching. Curriculum theory is a relatively new field of education enquiry which really took hold in school geography following the publication of Norman Graves's definitive text Curriculum Planning in Geography. Graves's model reminds people that the curriculum is dynamic and that the scales of planning interact with each other and the models are: the cultural transmission model, the objectives led model, the process/praxis model.
