Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction: Primary Education; At a Hinge of History?; Primary Education: Towards a Recent History; The Plowden Report: Reappraised; Primary Education 1974 80; The 'Primary School Revolution' Demythologized; An Appraisal of the HMI Primary Survey; Primary Education 1980 87: An Analysis of Changes and Trends; Primary Education: Issues in the Early 1990s; The Primary Curriculum; Changes to the English Primary Curriculum: 1862 1988; The Place of Subjects in the Primary Curriculum: A National Perspective
Summary
What you need to know about primary education in order to develop and improve it. Richards traces the history of primary education from the 1960s to the present day and raises key questions about its future
