1st Edition

The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys

    878 Pages
    by Routledge

    880 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is the outcome of the Cambridge Primary Review – England’s biggest enquiry into primary education for over forty years. Fully independent of government, it was launched in 2006 to investigate the condition and future of primary education at a time of change and uncertainty and after two decades of almost uninterrupted reform. Ranging over ten broad themes and drawing on a vast array of evidence, the Review published thiry-one interim reports, including twenty-eight surveys of published research, provoking media headlines and public debate, before presenting its final report and recommendations.

    This book brings together the twenty-eight research surveys, specially commissioned from sixty-five leading academics in the areas under scrutiny and now revised and updated, to create what is probably the most comprehensive overview and evaluation of research in primary education yet published. A particular feature is the prominence given to international and comparative perspectives. With an introduction from Robin Alexander, the Review’s director, the book is divided into eight sections, covering:

    • children’s lives and voices: school, home and community
    • children’s development, learning, diversity and needits
    • aims, values and contexts for primary education
    • the structure and content of primary education
    • outcomes, standards and assessment in primary education
    • teaching in primary schools: structures and processes
    • teaching in primary schools: training, development and workforce reform
    • policy frameworks: governance, funding, reform and quality assurance.

    The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is an essential reference tool for professionals, researchers, students and policy-makers working in the fields of early years, primary and secondary education.

    1. Introduction: Research, the Primary Review and the quality of education  Robin Alexander  Part One: Children’s lives and voices: school, home and community  2. Children and their primary schools: pupils’ voices  Carol Robinson and Michael Fielding  3. Children’s lives outside school and their educational impact  Berry Mayall  4. Parenting, caring and educating  Yolande Muschamp, Felicity Wikeley, Tess Ridge and Maria Balarin  5. Primary schools and other agencies  Ian Barron, Rachel Holmes, Maggie MacLure and Katherine Runswick-Cole  Part Two: Children’s development, learning, diversity and needs  6. Children’s cognitive development and learning  Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant  7. Children’s social development, peer interaction and classroom learning  Christine Howe and Neil Mercer  8. Children in primary education: demography, culture, diversity and inclusion  Mel Ainscow, Jean Conteh, Alan Dyson and Frances Gallannaugh  9. Learning needs and difficulties among children of primary school age: definition, identification, provision and issues  Harry Daniels and Jill Porter  Part Three: Aims, values and contexts for primary education  10. Aims for primary education: the changing national context  Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally  11. Aims for primary education: changing global contexts  Rita Chawla-Duggan and John Lowe  12. Aims as policy in English primary education  John White  13. Aims and values in primary education: England and other countries  Maha Shuayb and Sharon O’Donnell  Part Four: The structure and content of primary education  14. The structure of primary education: England and other countries  Anna Riggall and Caroline Sharp  15. Primary curriculum and assessment: England and other countries  Kathy Hall and Kamil Øzerk  16. Primary curriculum futures  James Conroy, Moira Hulme and Ian Menter  Part Five: Outcomes, standards and assessment in primary education  17. Standards and quality in English primary schools over time: the national evidence Peter Tymms and Christine Merrell  18. Standards in English primary education: the international evidence Chris Whetton, Graham Ruddock and Liz Twist  19. The quality of learning: assessment alternatives for primary education  Wynne Harlen  Part Six: Teaching in primary schools: structures and processes  20. Learning and teaching in primary schools: insights from TLRP Mary James and Andrew Pollard  21. Classes, groups and transitions: structures for teaching and learning  Peter Blatchford, Susan Hallam, Judith Ireson and Peter Kutnick, with Andrea Creech  22. Primary schools: the built environment  Karl Wall, Julie Dockrell and Nick Peacey  Part Seven: Teaching in primary schools: training, development and workforce reform  23. Primary schools: the professional environment  Ian Stronach, Andy Pickard and Liz Jones  24. Primary teachers: initial teacher education, continuing professional development and school leadership development  Olwen McNamara, Rosemary Webb and Mark Brundrett  25. Primary workforce management and reform  Hilary Burgess  Part Eight: Policy frameworks: governance, funding, reform and quality assurance  26. The governance, administration and control of primary education  Maria Balarin and Hugh Lauder  27. The funding of English primary education  Philip Noden and Anne West  28. Quality assurance in English primary education  Peter Cunningham and Philip Raymont  29. The trajectory and impact of national reform: curriculum and assessment in English primary schools  Dominic Wyse, Elaine McCreery and Harry Torrance

    Appendix 1. The Primary Review: remit and process  Appendix 2. The Primary Review: perspectives, themes and questions  Appendix 3. The Primary Review research surveys: thematic list

    Biography

    Robin Alexander is Lead Director of The Primary Review, Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, Professor of Education Emeritus at the University of Warwick and President of the British Association for Interntational and Comparative Education.

    Christine Doddington is Senior Lecturer in Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

    John Gray is Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

    Linda Hargreaves is Reader in Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

    Ruth Kershner is Lecturer in Psychology of Education and Primary Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.