Understanding primary education : developing professional attributes, knowledge and skills / edited by Penelope Harnett.

The social distribution of school knowledge in primary classrooms / Richard Eke and Lalit Kumar -- Support or straightjacket?: a tale of three strategies / Jo Barkham and Jo Miller -- Social care, childcare and education: exploring issues in the early years / Helen Butcher and John Lee -- What makes a pedagogy fit for key stage two? / Martin Ashley and Michael Nicholson -- Current assessment practice: driving or supporting practice? / Gordon Guest and John Lee -- Developing inclusive school communities / Helen Mulholland and Jane Tarr -- Space for learning? / Sue Hughes, Mandy Lee and Juliet Edmonds -- What has happened to curriculum breadth and balance in primary schools? / Penelope Harnett and Maria Vinney -- Children's futures, our futures: educating citizens for the twenty-first century / Alison Bailey and Steve Barnes -- Facing the future: the primary teacher in the twenty-first century / John Lee and Christine MacFarlane.

"Understanding Primary Education will help trainees and newly qualified teachers reflect on the professional decisions that they make within their planning and classroom practice. Key issues and policies within contemporary education are analysed through reference to research and case studies of pedagogical practice to provide a broad perspective of the curriculum with a focus on what curriculum breadth and balance looks like in practice." "Drawing on the voices of trainees, teachers, other education professionals and, most importantly, those of children, the authors illuminate how learning is facilitated and how knowledge and understandings are constructed collaboratively within the classroom and other settings. Each chapter begins with the identification of several key questions linked to such themes as curriculum planning, pedagogy, inclusion, assessment and children's learning, which readers are encouraged to relate to their own experiences."

"With case study material drawing on a range of educational settings, activities and reflections that invite readers to consider the issues discussed, this book will prove an invaluable resource for all trainees and newly qualified teachers."--Jacket

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