Reshaping Education In The 1990s: Perspectives On Primary Schooling

by Rita Chawla-Duggan (Editor), Christopher J. Pole (Editor)

Overview

Highlights and examines factors in primary education curriculum development, teacher training and professionalism and educational change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135717025
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	685 KB

About the Author

Rita Chawla-Duggan, Christopher J. Pole

Table of Contents

Part 1 Curriculum: age or stage? Research findings relating to assessment frameworks, Assessment of literacy and numeracy acquired before school, Primary science in the mid-nineties - grounds for optimism, working together in primary schools - changing relationships at Key Stage 2, profiles of productive schools - processes of organizational self-renewal, cross-cultural perspectives on eating - a hidden curriculum for food, Part 2 Teacher training: the reform of primary teacher training - the views of parents, the realization of partnership in a primary articled teacher course, Part 3 Professionalism: teachers' professional perspectives - continuity and change; creating atmosphere and tone in primary classrooms, gender and school leadership - using case studies to challenge the frameworks.

Editorial Reviews

Addresses changes in British primary schools, including many introduced by the 1988 Education Reform Act. Considers the relevance of the curriculum and whose needs it serves, creating different kinds of partnerships, and a concept of professionalism that recognizes both issues internal to education and the relationship of schools to the wider society. The 11 studies are from a 1994 conference at the University of Warwick. A second volume covers the same ground for secondary schools. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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