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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450263703321

Autore

McNamara David

Titolo

Classroom pedagogy and primary practice / / David McNamara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-88960-7

1-280-32826-6

0-203-30870-0

0-203-13395-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Disciplina

372.13

Soggetti

Elementary school teaching - Great Britain

Classroom management - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [146]-161) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; On teaching; On learning; The teacher's responsibility for learning; Relating teaching to children's aptitudes; Organising teaching to promote learning; Organising subject matter for learning; Pedagogy in practice: the case of subtraction; Teachers' pedagogic expertise; The professional authority of the teacher; Notes and references; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this provocative book, David McNamara argues that a `teacher-centred' approch to teaching in the primary school, especially in the later years is actually in the best interests of the children - that the teacher must be seen to have ultimate responsibility for what and how children learn. He attempts to define the distinctive professional expertise of the primary teacher - the application of subject knowledge within the special circumstances of the classroom - and to show how this expertise can be articulated to establish a body of educational knowledge which is both derived from practice a