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Author Wyse, Dominic

Title Creating the Curriculum
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (169 pages)
Series Understanding Primary Education Series
Understanding primary education series.
Contents Reshaping the message systems of schooling in the UK: a critical reflection / Bob Lingard -- The history of primary education and the curriculum / Ian Menter -- Aims and objectives / Carmel Gallagher and Dominic Wyse -- Pedagogy / Vivienne Marie Baumfield -- Has anyone really learned anything? Assessment in the primary school / Louise Hayward -- Curriculum construction / Carmel Gallagher and David Egan -- Languages and literacy / Dominic Wyse -- Critical analysis of personal and social education in UK primary curricula / Ruth Leitch -- Creativity / Dominic Wyse -- Curriculum for the future / Moira Hulme and Kay Livingston
Summary Is there an 'ideal' primary school curriculum?Who should decide what the curriculum is?Should teachers have autonomy over how they teach?The curriculum is the heart of what teachers teach and learners learn: effective teaching is only possible with an effective curriculum. Yet in spite of its importance, there has been a crisis in curriculum that has been caused in large part by governments assuming direct control over the curriculum, assessment, and increasingly, pedagogy. Creating the Curriculum tackles this thorny issue head on, challenging student and practising primary school teachers to
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Curriculum planning -- Great Britain
Education, Elementary -- Curricula -- Great Britain
EDUCATION -- General.
EDUCATION -- Curricula.
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
Curriculum planning
Education, Elementary -- Curricula
Education.
Social Sciences.
Theory & Practice of Education.
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Baumfield, Viv
Egan, David
Hayward, Louise
Hulme, Moira
Menter, Ian
Gallagher, Carmel
Leitch, Ruth
Livingston, Kay
Lingard, Bob
ISBN 9781136296871
1136296875
1283585235
9781283585231
9786613897688
661389768X