Debates in Primary Education

NOTE EDITORE

This powerful text encourages both pre-service and established teachers, as well as teacher educators, to engage with contemporary debates in primary education. Promoting a critical approach, 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. At the same time, the chapters are underpinned by a belief that children should be at the heart of all the decisions we make and that primary education should inspire a love of learning, for life. The book aims to support practitioners to make informed judgements and feel confident to argue their point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding, thus increasing teacher agency and confidence in responding to complex educational and social dilemmas such as literacy levels and rising mental health concerns. Chapters encompass both the macro aspects of primary education and more specialised debates on key topics such as reading, mathematics, languages, early years education and the use of technology. With annotated further reading and reflective questions, this key text is essential reading for all those wanting to develop a better understanding of the issues that shape their practice including student teachers at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, practising teachers engaged in continuing professional development and teacher educators.

SOMMARIO

Introduction Virginia Bower Chapter 1: The Purpose of Education: The Purpose of Primary Education Virginia Bower Chapter 2: Intimations of Utopia: Values, Sustaining Environments and the Flourishing of Children and Teachers Jonathan Barnes Chapter 3: Reconceptualising Teacher Identity Paula Stone Chapter 4: Fundamental British Values: Are They Fundamental? Imran Mogra Chapter 5: What is Effective Pedagogy in the Reception Year? Zoe Lewis Chapter 6: Exploring how Early Years Settings Might Promote High Quality Communication and Language Opportunities Through Community-Based Projects Vanessa Sawyer and Megan Stephenson Chapter 7: Teaching Early Reading: The Phonics Debate Rebecca Austin Chapter 8: The Arts as Handmaiden Hermione Ruck Keene Chapter 9: The Place of Foreign Languages in the Primary School Louise Pagden Chapter 10: Promoting a Bilingual Approach in the Primary Classroom Virginia Bower Chapter 11: Debates in Primary Science Education Leigh Hoath Chapter 12: Religious Education – What is it Trying to Do? Rhiannon Love and Alasdair Richardson Chapter 13: Geography and History – A Sense of Time and Place Wendy Garner and Tony Pickford Chapter 14: Using Digital Strategies for Primary Learning Lee Hazeldine Chapter 15: The Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics Gina Donaldson Chapter 16: Debates in the Teaching of Primary Physical Education Julia Lawrence Chapter 17: Teachers as Readers and Writers Teresa Cremin Chapter 18: Teaching Poetry Within an Accountability Culture Andrew Lambirth Chapter 19: ‘The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few’: Support for Children with SEND in Times of Austerity Andy Bloor Chapter 20: Leading the Way Catherine Carden

AUTORE

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

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780367548841
• Collana: Debates in Subject Teaching
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.63 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 5 tables, 4 halftones and 4 line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 300
• Pagine Romane: xvi