Philip H. Taylor

PURPOSE AND STRUCTURE IN THE CURRICULUM

∗Professor Taylors Inaugural Lecture in the Chair of Curriculum and Method, 3rd June 1967.

An Exploratory Study of Science Teachers' Perceptions of Effective Teaching.

∗ The research reported here is part of a larger research into the structure of science teaching supported by a grant from the Department of Education and Science.

Recent developments in curriculum studies

A study covering curriculum theory, history and subjects as well as the relation between the educational curriculum, the school and the teacher.

Clients Expectations of Secondary Schooling

Abstarct If pupils are to be seen as clients of the schools, it is suggested that their understanding of what school is for becomes important. While a number of studies have stressed pupils’ evaluation of the school in vocational terms, perspectives may change when views of school are set against the pupils own life goals ‐ his image of what he should be like when he has been educated. An attitude survey on these lines with 13‐14‐year‐old pupils indicates that almost all pupils, regardless of background or ability, value highly goals of personal and social development, and would like to see the school contributing to such goals by creating a supportive context for community living.

A Study of the Curricular Influence System of the English Primary School.

Abstract Taylor, P. H. & Reid, W. A. 1971. A Study of the Curricular Influence System of the English Primary School. Scand. J. educ. Res. 16, 1‐23. The major purpose of the study was to estimate the degree of influence exercised over what is taught in the English Primary School by a range of individuals (persons) and institutions, and to attempt to discriminate the influences exercised in terms of a general system of influences comprising a number of separable sub‐systems. Data were derived from responses by teachers to a 28‐item influence scale. Some 120 teachers responded from a sample of 12 ‘typical’ urban primary schools. The sample was selected by judgement. Results indicate in general terms that influences ‘internal’ to the school ‐ those of the head‐teacher, class teacher, pupils, staff groups, both formal and informal ‐‐ are stronger influences than those ‘external’ to the school whether educational or social influences operating at a local or national level. Within the school the influence of the...

The Primary School as an Institution: Analysis and Implications.

The aim of this paper is to offer a view of the primary school as an institution with structural properties comparable to institutions in general. Five studies will provide the basis from which such a view is developed, those by Sorokin, (1938), Perrow, (1965), Schon (1970), Taylor, et al (1974) and Collins and Porras, (1998). The common thread running through these studies focuses on three properties — core purpose, technology and task or social group — necessary to the effective functioning of an institution which are incidentally the multiple and overlapping, contexts of teaching.

A Limited Empirical Study of the Attitudes of Serving Teachers to Educational Theory

As part ofthe enquiry into teacher education conducted by the Birmingham Area Training Organisation it was decided to conduct a limited study of the views of serving teachers in primary and secondary schools into the role of educational theory in the initial and in-service education of teachers by means of a questionnaire. This paper reports the results arising from the quantifiable parts of the enquiry.