The relevance of practice to theory

This article will focus on a line of research and development that was initiated by the Humanities Curriculum Project, a British curriculum project, which ran from 1967 to 1972 and which has already been reported in Theory Into Practice (Stenhouse, 1971). The research line in question is one that has been closely associated with the Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE) at the University of East Anglia, and it shares with a number of other initiatives associated with that Centre a tradition which needs some comment if misunderstanding is to be avoided.