Focusing on education and its relation to professional accountability, this book views the issues from different but related perspectives. It examines the detrimental effects which the system of accountability has had on education and its practice.

In the 1960s educational philosophers showed enormous interest in the nature of knowledge and the curriculum. This work responds to the need to reinstate conceptual problems of truth, knowledge and the curriculum on the agenda for debate.

Detailing how to plan and prepare for a school trip, this text provides advice on the right and wrong way to approach trips that will both educate and entertain. A directory of places of interest grouped into subject-specific sections is included.