1st Edition

Reshaping Education In The 1990s Perspectives On Primary Schooling

Edited By Rita Chawla-Duggan, Christopher J. Pole Copyright 1996
216 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Highlights and examines factors in primary education curriculum development, teacher training and professionalism and educational change.

Part 1 Curriculum: age or stage? Research findings relating to assessment frameworks, Assessment of literacy and numeracy acquired before school, Primary science in the mid-nineties - grounds for optimism, working together in primary schools - changing relationships at Key Stage 2, profiles of productive schools - processes of organizational self-renewal, cross-cultural perspectives on eating - a hidden curriculum for food, Part 2 Teacher training: the reform of primary teacher training - the views of parents, the realization of partnership in a primary articled teacher course, Part 3 Professionalism: teachers' professional perspectives - continuity and change; creating atmosphere and tone in primary classrooms, gender and school leadership - using case studies to challenge the frameworks.

Biography

Rita Chawla-Duggan, Christopher J. Pole