Creative English, Creative Curriculum: New Perspectives for Key Stage 2

ISBN-13: 9780415485227 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 190 str.

Paul Gardner

Opis

Combining theory with practical examples, Creative English, Creative Curriculum will stimulate students and teachers to be adventurous and creative in their teaching, while covering the mains strands of the Primary National Strategy for English: narrative, non-fiction and poetry. This book:

• reflects the new emphases on speaking and listening
• contextualises recent changes to the English curriculum, reviewing models of best practice
• provides practical examples and research evidence of creative approaches to the teaching of English
• considers the cross-curricular aspects in creating a thematic approach to teaching and learning.

This book will appeal to both students and practising teachers in the primary school who either wish to implement creative approaches to their English teaching, or are undertaking extended study for a Masters Degree.

The English curriculum has undergone repeated changes in the last thirty years. We are now entering a period of innovation in which the teacher can re-claim the curriculum and implement creative approaches to the teaching of English.

This book will appeal to all those who feel passionate about the English curriculum in the primary school; those who recognise that the diet of prescriptive ‘linguistic bites’ was somehow lacking and who savour the return of a creative menu.

Combining theory with practical examples, Creative English, Creative Curriculum enthuses example and stimulates the reader to be adventurous in their teaching:

• reflects the new emphasis on speaking and listening, as the foundation of learning

• contextualises recent changes to the English curriculum by means of a brief review of thinking about best practice over the last twenty-thirty years

• provides practical examples and small scale research evidence of creative approaches to the teaching of English, including the use of film and drama, to encourage the best possible response to the demands of the curriculum

• considers the integration of English and other subjects in a thematic approach to teaching and learning.

Spis treści

List of figures  List of tables  List of boxes  Acknowledgements  Introduction – Q8 Rules, O.K.?  1. Janus: looking at English past and future  2. English as a creative process  3. Who’s talking now?  4. ‘The play’s the thing…’  5. Scene one, take three  6. Story, story, story  7. Reading outside the box  8. Poetry  9. Reading for meaning

O autorze

Paul Gardner is the Co-ordinator for Primary English at the University of Bedfordshire, UK.