Teaching and Learning In the Primary School

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 provided by Syndetics

• 1 Introduction: Teaching and learning in the 1990's
• Part 1 Learners
• 2 How Children Learn ... and Fail
• 3 Towards a Sociology of Learning in Primary Schools
• 4 Bilingual by Rights
• 5 Sex Roles in the Formative Years
• 6 Learner Needs or Learner Rights?
• Part 2 Teachers
• 7 The Teacher as a Person
• 8 Teacher Expertise
• 9 Teaching as a Professional Activity
• 10 Those who Understand: Knowledge growth in teaching
• 11 A First Try: Starting the day
• 12 Akemi
• 13 Teacher Expectations
• Part 3 Classrooms
• 14 Life in Classrooms
• 15 Characteristics of Good Practice
• 16 The Rise and Fall of Primary Education
• 17 The `Three Wise Men' and After
• 18 Teaching Strategies
• 19 An Approach to Personal and Social Education in the Primary School
• Or how one school teacher tried to make sense of her job
• Part 4 Curriculum
• 20 The Core Curriculum: An international perspective
• 22 The National Curriculum: Origins, context and implementation
• 22 Coherence and Manageability: Reflections on the National Curriculum and cross-curricular provision
• 24 The Evolution of the Topic
• 25 Preserving Integration within the National Curriculum in Primary Schools - Approaching a school development plan
• 25 Successful Topic Work
• 26 The Classteacher and the Curriculum
• 27 Teachers' Subject Knowledge
• 28 Assessment and the Improvement of Education
• 29 Target Setting with Young Children
• Part 5 Schools
• 30 The Organisation of the Primary School
• 31 Key Factors for Effective Junior Schooling
• 32 The Culture of Collaboration
• 33 St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
• 34 Involving the Whole Staff in Developing a Maths Curriculum
• 35 Primary - Secondary Transfer after the National Curriculum
• 36 Parents' Choice of School
• 37 Involving Parents