ABSTRACT
This sourcebook offers a unique summary into all that was important in primary education during the 1990s. It provides almost fifty key readings on the field which are grouped around six major topics:
* learners
* teachers
* classrooms
* curriculum
* assessment
* school and education policy.
Over half of the readings focus on real life cases - such as pupils, teachers, classrooms or schools - as a means of conveying some of the interpersonal subtleties of teaching and learning in primary schools. At the same time, these cases highlight important current topics and debates in primary education and often provide insights into practical ways of meeting the challenges which are posed. Other articles are more explicitly analytical and provide conceptual frameworks, overviews or critiques of their fields.
This is an excellent resource and guide for primary school teachers, and students studying on PGCE courses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Learners
chapter |5 pages
How children learn…and fail
chapter |16 pages
Towards a sociology of learning in primary schools
chapter |4 pages
Wally’s story
chapter |10 pages
Bilingual by rights
chapter |11 pages
Sex roles in the formative years
chapter |12 pages
Learner needs or learner rights?
part |2 pages
Part II Teachers
chapter |6 pages
The teacher as a person
chapter |7 pages
Teacher expertise
chapter |4 pages
Teaching as a professional activity
chapter |4 pages
Akemi
chapter |12 pages
Teacher expectations
part |2 pages
Part III Classrooms
chapter |6 pages
Life in classrooms
chapter |4 pages
Characteristics of good practice
chapter |9 pages
The rise and fall of primary education
chapter |10 pages
The ‘three wise men’ and after
chapter |15 pages
Teaching strategies
chapter |8 pages
An approach to personal and social education in the primary school
part |2 pages
Part IV Curriculum
chapter |4 pages
Coherence and manageability
chapter |6 pages
The evolution of the topic
chapter |12 pages
Preserving integration within the national curriculum in primary schools
chapter |1 pages
Successful topic work
chapter |6 pages
The classteacher and the curriculum
chapter |6 pages
Teachers’ subject knowledge
chapter |9 pages
Assessment and the improvement of education
chapter |9 pages
Target setting with young children
part |2 pages
Part V Schools