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Peer reviewedKirst, Michael W.; Walker, Decker F. – Review of Educational Research, 1971
Literature on public school curriculum development since 1950 is reviewed to determine who is determining curriculum policy-making. There is an increasingly political approach to curriculum questions on the part of the general public. (Author/VW)
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Community Control, Curriculum, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedSmithson, Alan – Journal of Educational Administration, 1985
This article closes off a debate in this journal between the author and James D. Kaminsky concerning the latter's philosophical analysis of a "Freedom and Authority Memorandum" delivered to South Australian public schools in the early 1970s by then Director-General of Education, A. W. Jones. (TE)
Descriptors: Community Control, Curriculum, Democracy, Democratic Values
