168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Is there an ‘ideal’ primary school curriculum? Who should decide what the curriculum is? Should teachers have autonomy over how they teach? The curriculum is the heart of what teachers teach and learners learn: effective teaching is only possible with an effective curriculum. Yet in spite of its importance, there has been a crisis in curriculum that has been caused in large part by... Read more

Editor's Introduction  1. Reshaping the message systems of schooling in the UK: a critical reflection Bob Lingard  2. The history of primary education and the curriculum Ian Menter  3. Aims and Objectives Carmel Gallagher and Dominic Wyse  4. Pedagogy Vivienne Baumfield  5. Has anyone really learned anything? Assessment in the primary school Louise Hayward  6. Curriculum Construction Carmel Gallagher and David Egan  7. Languages and literacy Dominic Wyse  8. Critical analysis of personal and social education in UK primary curricula Ruth Leitch  9. Creativity Dominic Wyse  10. Curriculum for the future Moira Hulme and Kay Livingston

 

Biography

Dominic Wyse is Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Vivienne Marie Baumfield is Professor of Pedagogy at the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK.

David Egan is Emeritus Professor and Director at the Centre for Applied Education Research, Cardiff School of Education, University Wales in Cardiff, UK.

Carmel Gallagher is Research Associate at the School of Education, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK.

Louise Hayward is Professor of Educational Assessment and Innovation at the School of Education, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK.

Moira Hulme is Lecturer in Educational Research at the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK.

Ruth Leitch is Professor of Education at the School of Education, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

Bob Lingard is Professorial Research Fellow at the School of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia.

Kay Livingston is Professor of Educational Research, Policy and Practice at the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK.

Ian Menter is Professor of Teacher Education and Director of Professional Programmes at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK.

"Creating the Curriculum is a stimulating, informed, provocative, well-referenced and accessible collection of writing. The focus of the book is a consideration of curriculum construction and the impact of the primary school curriculum on teaching and learning in the four countries of the UK. Central to the success of this book, however, is that, in addition to providing a careful summative historical setting for the discussion of issues affecting schools now and in the future, the writers never lose sight of the fact that, at every opportunity, we need to listen to children." - John Senior, Gifted Education International