An important contribution that Emerging curriculum makes is a reconceptualizing of the curriculum development process. This moves development thinking from the traditional research-development-dissemination model to one that acknowledges: the interrelatedness of many influences on curriculum, the multi-layered nature of curriculum, and the complexity of the educational system in which curriculum exists. Indeed the educational system is envisaged as a complex living system

The study is autobiographical, it is based on a lifetime spent in education during which the author had a particular...