Dominic Wyse is Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, and Head of the Department of Learning and Leadership, at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. The main focus of his research is curriculum and pedagogy, and key areas of his work include the teaching of writing, reading, and creativity. He is the lead editor of the SAGE Handbook of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment (2015), and the co-author of Teaching English, Language and Literacy - 3rd Edition (2013). His most recent book is Education and Childhood: From Current Certainties to New Visions (2015). He is a fellow of the RSA.

• Introduction – Creating curricula: aims, knowledges, and control 1. What is a curriculum and what can it do? 2. Knowledge and the curriculum 3. Pragmatising the curriculum: bringing knowledge back into the curriculum conversation, but via pragmatism 4. Downgraded curriculum? An analysis of knowledge in new curricula in Scotland and New Zealand 5. An aims-based curriculum illustrated by the teaching of science in schools 6. Two contrasting Australian Curriculum responses to globalisation: what students should learn or become 7. Dysfunctional dichotomies? Deflating bipolar constructions of curriculum and pedagogy through case studies from music and history 8. Curriculum and assessment reform gone wrong: the perfect storm of GCSE English