Debates in Primary Education

ISBN-13: 9780367548865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 300 str.

Virginia Bower

Opis

This text encourages both pre-service and established teachers to engage with contemporary debates in primary education. The chapters explore a wide range of key themes including the importance of values in primary education and the imperative for a curriculum which embraces the whole range of available subjects.

Spis treści

Introduction  Chapter 1: The Purpose of Education: The Purpose of Primary Education  Chapter 2: Intimations of Utopia: Values, Sustaining Environments and the Flourishing of Children and Teachers  Chapter 3: Reconceptualising Teacher Identity  Chapter 4: Fundamental British Values: Are They Fundamental?  Chapter 5: What is Effective Pedagogy in the Reception Year?  Chapter 6: Exploring how Early Years Settings Might Promote High Quality Communication and Language Opportunities Through Community-Based Projects  Chapter 7: Teaching Early Reading: The Phonics Debate  Chapter 8: The Arts as Handmaiden  Chapter 9: The Place of Foreign Languages in the Primary School  Chapter 10: Promoting a Bilingual Approach in the Primary Classroom  Chapter 11: Debates in Primary Science Education  Chapter 12: Religious Education – What is it Trying to Do?  Chapter 13: Geography and History – A Sense of Time and Place  Chapter 14: Using Digital Strategies for Primary Learning  Chapter 15: The Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics  Chapter 16: Debates in the Teaching of Primary Physical Education  Chapter 17: Teachers as Readers and Writers  Chapter 18: Teaching Poetry Within an Accountability Culture  Chapter 19: ‘The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few’: Support for Children with SEND in Times of Austerity  Chapter 20: Leading the Way

O autorze

Virginia Bower is currently a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University and an Associate Lecturer with The Open University.