1st Edition

Creative Teachers in Primary Schools

By Peter Woods Copyright 1995
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Is creative teaching still possible in English schools? Can teachers maintain and promote their own interests and beliefs as well as deliver a prescribed National Curriculum? Originally published in 1995, this book explores creative teachers’ attempts to pursue their brand of teaching despite the changes. Peter Woods has discovered a range of strategies and adaptations to this end among such... Read more

Acknowledgements.  Preface.  1. Introduction: Adapting to Intensification  2. Resisting through Collaboration: A Whole-School Perspective on the National Curriculum  3. The Creative Use and Defence of Space: Appropriation through the Environment  4. The Charisma of the Critical Other: Enhancing the Role of the Teacher  5. Teaching, and Researching the Teaching of, a History Topic: An Experiment in Collaboration  6. Managing Marginality: Aspects of the Career of a Primary School Head  7. Self-Determination Among Primary School Teachers.  References.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Peter Woods