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Rewriting Oxfordshire's agreed syllabus post 1988

Introduction
Chapter 1 The context
Chapter 2 New syllabuses for old?
Chapter 3 Towards a first draft
Chapter 4 Working on the draft
Chapter 5 The final stages
Chapter 6 The new syllabus: an analysis
Bibliography

Rewriting Oxfordshire's agreed syllabus post 1988
Derek Gillard
June1992

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Bibliography

Books

Beswick N (1987) Rethinking Active Learning 8-16 London: The Falmer Press

Blenkin and Kelly (1987) The Primary Curriculum: a process approach to curriculum planning London: Harper and Row

Cox E (1966) Changing Aims in Religious Education London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

Cox E (1983) Problems and Possibilities for Religious Education London: Hodder and Stoughton

Cox E and Cairns J (1989) Reforming Religious Education London: Bedford Way Papers/Kogan Page

Donaldson M (1978) Children's Minds London: Flamingo/Fontana Paperbacks

Francis L and Thatcher A (1990) Christian Perspectives for Education Leominster: Fowler Wright Books

Gagne RM (1971) Learning Theory, Educational Media and Individualised Instruction in Hooper R (ed) The Curriculum: Context, Design and Development London: Oliver and Boyd/Open University quoted in Beswick (1987)

Galton M, Simon B and Croll P (1980) Inside the Primary Classroom (The ORACLE Report) London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

Golby M, Greenwald J and West R (eds) (1975) Curriculum Design London: Open University/Croom Helm

Goldman R (1965) Readiness for Religion London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

Grimmitt M (1987) Religious Education and Human Development Great Wakering: McCrimmons

Hull J (ed) (1982) New Directions in Religious Education London: The Falmer Press

Hull J (1984) Studies in Religion and Education London: The Falmer Press

Kelly AV (1982) The Curriculum: Theory and Practice London: Harper and Row

Kerr JF (ed) (1968) Changing the Curriculum London: University of London Press

Kilpatrick (1918) The Project Method New York: Teachers' College of Columbia University quoted in Pring (1976) Knowledge and Schooling Wells: Open Books

Lawton D (1980) The Politics of the School Curriculum London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

Lawton D (1986) School Curriculum Planning London: Hodder and Stoughton

Leonard M (1988) The 1988 Education Act Oxford: Basil Blackwell

National Curriculum Council (1991) Religious Education - a local curriculum framework York: NCC

Pring R (1976) Knowledge and Schooling Wells: Open Books

Robinson JAT (1963) Honest to God London: SCM Press

Schwab JJ (1964) Structure of the Disciplines: meanings and significances in Golby M, Greenwald J and West R (eds) (1975) Curriculum Design London: Open University/Croom Helm

Skilbeck M (1984) School-based Curriculum Development London: Harper and Row

Smart N (1966) Secular Education and the Logic of Religion London: Faber and Faber

Stenhouse (1975) An Introduction to Curriculum Research and Development London: Heinemann

Watson B (1987) Education and Belief Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Westhill College (1989) Attainment in RE

Westhill College (1991) Assessing Recording and Reporting RE

Articles and Papers

DES Circular 3/89

DES Letter to Chief Education Officers March 1991

Scruton R (1987) 'Expressionist Education' Oxford Review of Education Vol. 13 No. 1 Oxford: Carfax Publishing

Westhill College (1991) Attainment in RE - some considerations for LEAs/SACREs (memorandum)

Reports

Exeter (1990) Interim Report of the FARE Project (Forms of Assessment in RE)

Hampshire (1990) Assessment in RE (interim report)

HMI (1978) Primary Education in England London: HMSO

Plowden Report (1967) Children and their Primary Schools, Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education (England) London: HMSO

Suffolk (1990) RE in the Basic Curriculum (interim report)

Taylor Report (1977) A New Partnership for our Schools London: HMSO

Agreed Syllabuses

Surrey (1963)

Cornwall (1964)

Birmingham (1975)

Hampshire (1978)

Oxfordshire (1981)

Hampshire (1980) Paths to Understanding

Hampshire (1986) Following the Paths

A copy of the Oxfordshire Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education may be obtained from:

The Chief Education Officer
Oxfordshire Education Department
Macclesfield House
New Road
OXFORD
OX1 1NA

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