Introduction; School Subjects; Chapter 1 Preparing to Write in Further Education, Dorothy Douglas, Barnes; Chapter 2 English: A Curriculum for Personal Development?, Caroline St John-Brooks; Chapter 3 A Subject of Privilege: English and the School Curriculum 1906–35, Stephen J. Ball; Chapter 4 Defining and Defending the Subject: Geography versus Environmental Studies, Ivor Goodson; Chapter 5 One Spell of Ten Minutes or Five Spells of Two…? Teacher-Pupil Encounters in Art and Design Education, Les Tickle; Chapter 6 The Teaching of Art and the Art of Teaching: Towards an Alternative View of Aesthetic Learning, David H. Hargreaves; Gender and the Curriculum; Chapter 7 Gender and Curriculum Choice: A Case Study, Teresa Graton, Henry Miller, Lesley Smith, Martin Vegoda, Richard Whitfield; Chapter 8 Gender and the Sciences: Pupils’ Gender-Based Conceptions of School Subjects, Lynda Measor; Examinations, Accountability and Assessment; Chapter 9 The Hidden Curriculum of Examinations, Glenn Turner; Chapter 10 Teachers' School-Based Experiences of Examining, John Scarth; Chapter 11 *This chapter is based on a paper delivered at St Hilda's College, Oxford on 22 September 1981; it has been revised to take account of developments up to November 1982., Richard Bowe, Geoff Whitty; Chapter 12 Assessment Constraints on Curriculum Practice: A Comparative Study, Patricia Broadfoot;