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The concept of school based curriculum development has been central to my professional concerns and ways of thinking about educational change since the late 1950’s. It had two main tributaries: my early experience and dialogue with colleagues as a secondary school teacher in London; and the interest I took as a graduate student in Australia, the U.S. and England in the educational philosophies of John Dewey and Alfred North Whitehead and the international movements of progressive education with their eighteen century roots in the Enlightenment and the Romantic Movement.
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Skilbeck, M. (2005). School-Based Curriculum Development. In: Lieberman, A. (eds) The Roots of Educational Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4451-8_7
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