ABSTRACT
The Schools Council for Curriculum and Examinations came into being at October 1964. In the 1960s, in an economic climate which was relatively warm, and resources available for growth within the educational system, teachers were offered opportunities to take a central role in the reconstruction and development of the curriculum. The idea of geography as a resource is an apparently simple idea but then in the 1970s and probably in the 1990s, it is a difficult message to communicate effectively to teachers. Geography offered many realistic situations in which children and teachers together could explore the values of different groups. Geography as a resource therefore has a major place in the primary curriculum. The concerns of the time were falling rolls, lack of resources and an increasing call for accountability as both the development of appraisal and the prospects of a more centrally directed curriculum appeared on the horizon.
