Primary/Elementary Education Books

New and Published Books

1. The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music

   Edited by Jonathan Savage

   The Guided Reader to Teaching and Learning Music draws on extracts from the published work of some of the most influential education writers to provide insight, guidance and clarity about key issues affecting Music teachers. The book brings together key extracts from classic and contemporary...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Workplace Learning in Physical Education

   By lisahunter, Richard Tinning, Tony Rossi, Erin Flanagan, Doune Macdonald

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys

   Edited by Robin Alexander, Christine Doddington, John Gray, Linda Hargreaves, Ruth Kershner

   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...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Children’s Drawing and Writing

   The Remarkable in the Unremarkable

   By Diane Mavers

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Children’s everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness. This book takes a very close look at what passes by largely unnoticed at home and in school: copying, texts fleetingly present then gone, a picture drawn after the valued...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers

   Theoretical Foundations and Pedagogical Resources for Pre-Service and In-Service Contexts

   By Vivian Maria Vasquez, Stacie L. Tate, Jerome C. Harste

   How can teacher educators engage pre-service and in-service teachers in learning about and framing their teaching from a critical literacy perspective? What does this mean? Why is it important? To address these questions, this book offers a theoretical framework and detailed examples, pedagogical...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Descriptosaurus

   Supporting Creative Writing for Ages 8–14, 2nd Edition

   By Alison Wilcox

   Reviews of the first edition "This book is a treasure trove of descriptive language... Highly recommended for both teachers and parents. I wish I’d had a copy of this book when I was a full time English teacher! Invest in a copy today; you’ll be glad you did." Sue Cowley, bestselling author,...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
7. Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods

   Edited by Laura Azzarito, David Kirk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. Teaching in Primary Schools in China and India

   Contexts of learning

   By Nirmala Rao, Emma Pearson, Kai-ming Cheng, Margaret Taplin

   Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

   This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents’ beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children’s attainment....

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. Creativity in the Primary Curriculum

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Russell Jones, Dominic Wyse

   Are you striving to establish a more creative and imaginative classroom? Are you interested in: the generosity of creativity; creative conjecture; being an advocate for creativity; welcoming the unexpected, the unpredictable and the unconventional; taking risks; learning which...

   Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
10. Teaching English, Language and Literacy

    3rd Edition

    By Dominic Wyse, Russell Jones, Helen Bradford, Mary Anne Wolpert

    ‘This book is comprehensive, up-to-date, critical and authoritative. It is also, above all, well written. It will undoubtedly become standard reading for the next generation of teachers in training and practising teachers will also learn a great deal from dipping into its contents.' - David Wray,...

    Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge