The story of curriculum theory and development over the last fifty years is one of a lack of imagination, dominated by the results-driven "objectives model" of curriculum, judging effectiveness through exam results and league tables.

Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative "process" model for designing, developing, implementing and avaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educatioinal process which contains key principles of procedure

This comprehensive and authoritative book:

• offers a practical and theoretical plan for curriculum-making without objectives.
• shows that a curriculum can be best planned and developed at school level by teachers adopting an action research role.
• Complements the spirit and reality of much of the teaching profession today, embracing the fact that there is a degree of intuition and critical judgement in the work of educators.
• presents empirical evidence on teachers' human values.