Abstract
THE PAST DECADE and a half has been marked by a concerted effort to revise the curriculum of both American and British schools. In America reform efforts began in the mid-1950s and received a major stimulus from the publication of Jerome Bruner's The Process of Education.1 Most areas of the curriculum were examined and major changes were made in the teaching of such subjects as mathematics, language arts, and the social studies. Included were efforts to develop inquiry or discovery approaches in the learning of history. Richard H. Brown and the Amherst Project sought to design a new American History curriculum; John W. Thompson and the World History Curriculum Project attempted to build new approaches to the teaching of World History; and Edwin Fenton at Carnegie-Mellon University sought to construct a four-year secondary school social studies cur-
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