Understanding primary education : developing professional attributes, knowledge and skills /
edited by Penelope Harnett.
- London ; New York : Routledge, (c)2008.
- 1 online resource (1 volume)
The social distribution of school knowledge in primary classrooms / Support or straightjacket?: a tale of three strategies / Social care, childcare and education: exploring issues in the early years / What makes a pedagogy fit for key stage two? / Current assessment practice: driving or supporting practice? / Developing inclusive school communities / Space for learning? / What has happened to curriculum breadth and balance in primary schools? / Children's futures, our futures: educating citizens for the twenty-first century / Facing the future: the primary teacher in the twenty-first century / Richard Eke and Lalit Kumar -- Jo Barkham and Jo Miller -- Helen Butcher and John Lee -- Martin Ashley and Michael Nicholson -- Gordon Guest and John Lee -- Helen Mulholland and Jane Tarr -- Sue Hughes, Mandy Lee and Juliet Edmonds -- Penelope Harnett and Maria Vinney -- Alison Bailey and Steve Barnes -- 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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Elementary school teaching--Great Britain. Elementary school teachers--Professional relationships--Great Britain. First year teachers--Training of.