Out in the Open : A Secondary School English Curriculum

Out in the Open gives a detailed account of aims, content and strategy, defining the English curriculum for the 11-16 age range. It presents a practical and theoretically sound scheme of assessment, together with a proposal for a Record of Achievement to serve as qualification for sixteen-year-olds. The author builds on work in many different fields: psychological, linguistic, philosophical and sociological. The book is grounded in principles that informed the Plowden Report and that are now causing much innovation in Further Education.Blanchard, John is the author of 'Out in the Open : A Secondary School English Curriculum', published 1986 under ISBN 9780521321297 and ISBN 0521321298.