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1 online resource (363 pages) |
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Education Heritage |
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Education Heritage
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| Contents |
Cover; Education 3-13: 40 years of research on primary, elementary and early years education; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Learning and teaching; 1 Discovery learning: A personal view; 2 'I suppose learning your tables could help you get a job': Children's views on the purpose of schools; 3 'Memories are made of this': Some reflections on outdoor learning and recall; 4 It is approaching breakfast and this is a campervan: Weather, drawings and grandparenting in North-West England; Part II Key challenges in primary education |
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5 Challenges to primary education6 Delegation: Burden or empowerment?; 7 Planning for leadership succession: Creating a talent pool in primary schools; 8 Every Child Matters: 'tinkering' or 'reforming': An analysis of the development of the Children Act (2004) from an educational perspective; Part III The primary curriculum: Maths, Science, IT and Technology Education; 9 Craft Design Technology in the primary school: Let's keep it primary; 10 Who is a scientist?: Children's drawings reveal all; 11 Maths from a tube of Smarties; 12 Planning to use ICT in schools? |
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13 'Science is not my thing': Primary teachers' concerns about challenging gifted pupilsPart IV The primary curriculum: English, Humanities and the Arts; 14 Getting the message; 15 Teaching young children about the past; 16 The quality of writing 7-13; 17 The arts in the primary school: Snapshots of practice; 18 Giants, good and bad: Story and drama at the heart of the curriculum at Key Stage 1; 19 Growing towards citizenship: Humanities in the revised primary national curriculum; 20 Picking a path through the phonics minefield; 21 Arts education in the 21st century -- frill or fundamental? |
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22 The National Literacy Strategy: missing a crucial link?: A comparative study of the National Literacy Strategy and Success for All23 International perspectives on history education; Part V Primary teachers' work and professionalism; 24 The primary teacher as servant of the state; 25 Teachers studying classroom learning; 26 Educational reform and primary teachers' work: Some sources of conflict; 27 Would schools improve if teachers cared less?; 28 Doing school differently: Creative practitioners at work; Index |
| Summary |
Primary education is one of the most important phases of learning but there remains a scarcity of in-depth research on this vital topic. However, as the focus on improving outcomes increases there is a growing interest internationally in research that helps us to understand the best ways to help young children engage with the curriculum in order that they may have the best possible life chances. This text helps to address these issues and consists of seminal articles derived from the forty-year history of the journal Education 3-13, which can claim to be one of the most important and influe |
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Print version record |
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Early childhood education -- Great Britain
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Education, Elementary -- Great Britain
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EDUCATION -- Elementary.
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Early childhood education
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Education, Elementary
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Great Britain
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bottery, Michael
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SILCOCK, PETER
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Rosemary Webb
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Burton, Neil
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Duncan, Diane
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Zhang, Wei
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| ISBN |
9781136156779 |
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1136156771 |
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