Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

Tackling Controversial Issues in the Primary School: Facing Life's Challenges with Your Learners book cover

1st Edition

Tackling Controversial Issues in the Primary School Facing Life's Challenges with Your Learners

By Richard Woolley Copyright 2010
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
How do you broach family values with seven year olds? Can you help young children understand racism? Can you avoid bringing your own prejudices into the classroom? Talking effectively about controversial issues with young children is a challenge facing every primary school teacher. Tackling Controversial Issues   in the Primary School provides teachers with support and guidance as... Read more

Preface  Acknowledgements  1. Introducing Controversial Issues: concepts and challenges  2. Living Together: anti-racist education in mono and multicultural settings  3. Family Values: what and who makes a family?  4. Developing Worldviews: global citizenship and care for the environment  5. Democracy, Politics and Cooperation: involving children in decision—making and collaboration  6. Gender, Identity and Acceptance: together everyone achieves more  7. Grief and Loss: facing change, death and bereavement  8. Remembrance and Remembering: challenges and opportunities  9. Learning and the Market: addressing values and consumerism  10. Conclusion – Towards Inclusive Practice: tackling controversial issues  References  Index

 

Biography

Richard Woolley is a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education and Fellow in Learning and Teaching at Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, UK.

Recommended in the TES ‘Read these’ column’
Add to Cart