Introduction
Virginia Bower
Chapter 1: The Purpose of Education: The Purpose of Primary Education
Virginia Bower
Chapter 2: Intimations of Utopia: Values, Sustaining Environments and the Flourishing of Children and Teachers
Jonathan Barnes
Chapter 3: Reconceptualising Teacher Identity
Paula Stone
Chapter 4: Fundamental British Values: Are They Fundamental?
Imran Mogra
Chapter 5: What is Effective Pedagogy in the Reception Year?
Zoe Lewis
Chapter 6: Exploring how Early Years Settings Might Promote High Quality Communication and Language Opportunities Through Community-Based Projects
Vanessa Sawyer and Megan Stephenson
Chapter 7: Teaching Early Reading: The Phonics Debate
Rebecca Austin
Chapter 8: The Arts as Handmaiden
Hermione Ruck Keene
Chapter 9: The Place of Foreign Languages in the Primary School
Louise Pagden
Chapter 10: Promoting a Bilingual Approach in the Primary Classroom
Virginia Bower
Chapter 11: Debates in Primary Science Education
Leigh Hoath
Chapter 12: Religious Education – What is it Trying to Do?
Rhiannon Love and Alasdair Richardson
Chapter 13: Geography and History – A Sense of Time and Place
Wendy Garner and Tony Pickford
Chapter 14: Using Digital Strategies for Primary Learning
Lee Hazeldine
Chapter 15: The Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics
Gina Donaldson
Chapter 16: Debates in the Teaching of Primary Physical Education
Julia Lawrence
Chapter 17: Teachers as Readers and Writers
Teresa Cremin
Chapter 18: Teaching Poetry Within an Accountability Culture
Andrew Lambirth
Chapter 19: ‘The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few’: Support for Children with SEND in Times of Austerity
Andy Bloor
Chapter 20: Leading the Way
Catherine Carden
Biography
Virginia Bower is currently a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University and an Associate Lecturer with The Open University.
