Lessons from a Comprehensive School System for Curriculum Theory and Research∗

∗ Revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Fransisco, as part of an invited symposium entitled “Some recent European approaches to curriculum theory and development”, on 20th April 1976. The research reported herein is sponsored by the Tercentenary Fund of the Bank of Sweden. The points of view, selection of facts, and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily coincide with the official position of the funding agency.