Understanding Industrial Society

The Schools Council Enquiry No 1 (HMSO) published in 1968 revealed that employers, parents, teachers and the pupils themselves considerd the preparation of pupils to cope with the demands of the adult world of work in social and economic terms to be a major responsibility of the school. However it was equally apparent that little of what was done as a specific part of the curriculum in schools was designed to meet this aim, and at meetings of teachers and advisers at Teachers' Centres in Warwickshire, Coventry and Staffordshire it was decided to devise a course to fulfil this need.