Changes in a Curriculum on the Way from Its Author to the Child

Abstract

1. The So-called Dissemination Problem

The reform of the school learning process is proving more and more to be a difficult business. In the past ten years, a number of efforts have been made under the catch phrase "curriculum reform" to improve the goals, forms and content of the formal school learning process. In the past, disputes centered for the most part on whether planned innovations are in fact better than traditional instruction, and if so, according to what criteria. Now, however, increasing doubts have arisen as to whether these efforts have led to any actual changes at all, or whether they have not simply been absorbed in the classroom.