This book encourages readers to explore significant aspects of current thinking in primary education (for ages three to 13 years) focusing on pedagogy: the study of processes of teaching. The authors consider contexts, knowledge, skills and curriculum within a framework of practice. A distinctive feature is the voices of teachers, children, parents, advisors and inspectors.
The book covers: learning, knowledge and pedagogy; pedagogic issues, application of practice. The authors also present a discussion of national strategies and The National Curriculum update for 2000, discussions of a world-wide curriculum, and ICT and citizenship viewed as tools for developing aspects of pedagogy.
PART ONE: CONCEPTS IN PRIMARY EDUCATION
Towards a New Perspective on Children's Learning? - Andrew Pollard
Just for Fun? - Janet Moyles
The Child as Active Learner and Meaning Maker
Defining Classroom Knowledge - Mary Phillips Manke
The Part that Children Play
Critical Pedagogy, Empowerment and Learning - Sonia Nieto
PART TWO: PEDAGOGIC ISSUES
Organizing the Primary Classroom Environment as a Context for Learning - Pam Pointon and Ruth Kershner
Balancing Individual and the Group - Margery D Osborne
A Dilemma for the Constructivist Teacher
`Sally, Would You Like to Sit Down?' - Mary Phillips Manke
How Teachers use Politeness and Indirect Discourse
The Literary Hour - Roger Hancock and Melian Mansfield
A Case for Listening to Children
Silence as a Fortress and Prison - Karen Gallas
PART THREE: APPLICATION OF PRACTICE
What Is Curriculum? - Alistair Ross
Will the Curriculum Caterpillar Ever Learn to Fly? - Mike Davies and Gwyn Edwards
Challenging Prescription in Ideology and Practice - Bob Jeffrey
The Case of Sunny First School
The Impact of the National Curriculum on Play in Reception Class - Elizabeth Wood
Value Pluralism, Democracy and Education for Citizenship - Don Rowe
ICT in Subject Teaching an Opportunity for Curriculum Renewal? - Michael Bonnet, Angela McFarlane and Jacquetta Williams
Critical Literacy and the Case for It in the Early Years of School - Kathy Hall
