ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the nature, content and structure of the Scottish school curriculum in order to illustrate aspects of the important relationship between national identity and national school curriculum. It is not a systematic description of the overall pattern of the Scottish school curriculum: the reader must seek such a description elsewhere (for example Harrison 1994). Rather, this chapter is an exploration of aspects of the relationship between national culture and national identity: in a Scottish context, certainly, but, I hope, pointing to issues of relevance to educators in all nations.
