1st Edition

Inside the Primary Classroom: 20 Years On

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

In recent years primary education has been the subject of continuing debate with questions of standards and their apparent decline being raised with alarming regularity. Central in informing these debates has been the ORACLE study of groupwork in primary classrooms. Published during the 1980s, the study described in detail the daily life of the primary classroom, the teaching styles used by... Read more
Chapter 1 Two Decades of Primary Education; Chapter 2 The Classroom Environment; Chapter 3 Teaching in Today’s Primary Classroom; Chapter 4 Pupils and Their Teachers in the KS2 Classroom; Chapter 5 Establishing a Working Consensus; Chapter 6 Pupil Performance in Basic Skills; Chapter 7 Why have Standards Fallen?; Chapter 8 Primary Education for the Millennium;

Biography

Maurice Galton, Linda Hargreaves, Chris Comber, Debbie Wall, Anthony Pell