William A. Reid is a well known British curriculum theorist. After obtaining his B.A. degree from Cambridge University, he first taught in English high schools.[1] He went on to conduct curriculum research at the University of Birmingham, where he obtained his Ph.D. He teaches at University of Birmingham.[2]
He elaborated on curriculum theorist Joseph Schwab's notion of "curriculum deliberation". He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books.
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In Curriculum as Institution and Practice: Essays in the Deliberative Tradition, William Reid acknowledges curriculum studies’ debt to this Deweyan model of deliberation. He asserts that science’s ascendancy in curriculum planning at the turn of the century relegated philosophical deliberation to an inferior position but that Dewey’s works “kept the tradition alive”[3]