Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1 Introduction: Can a Curriculum be National? -- 2 Conceptual Issues in a Centralised Curriculum -- 3 The Crumbling Shrine: the National Curriculum and the Proposals to Amend it -- 4 Secondary School Pupils' Experience of the National Curriculum -- 5 Pupil Perceptions of the National Curriculum -- 6 Secondary Subject Teaching and the Development of Pupil Values -- 7 Excluded or Empowered: The National Curriculum and Exclusions -- 8 Exploring the Policy Influence of England's National Curriculum on School Exclusion: A Dilemma of Intended Entitlement and Unintended Exclusion? -- 9 Horse Before the Cart: Developing an Evidence-Based Approach to Educational Policy -- 10 National Curriculum Subjects are Repositories of Values that are Under-Explored -- 11 ICT in the National Curriculum - Revised but not Resolved -- 12 Conclusion: Logic, Rationality and the Curriculum