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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454947403321

Autore

Richards Colin <1942->

Titolo

Primary Education at a Hinge of History

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : RoutledgeFalmer, 1999

ISBN

1-135-69953-4

1-280-31662-4

0-203-48750-8

0-203-21905-8

Descrizione fisica

viii, 150 p

Collana

Primary directions series

Disciplina

372.941

Soggetti

Education, Elementary - Great Britain

Educational planning - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction: Primary Education; At a Hinge of History?; Primary Education: Towards a Recent History; The Plowden Report: Reappraised; Primary Education 1974 80; The 'Primary School Revolution' Demythologized; An Appraisal of the HMI Primary Survey; Primary Education 1980 87: An Analysis of Changes and Trends; Primary Education: Issues in the Early 1990s; The Primary Curriculum; Changes to the English Primary Curriculum: 1862 1988; The Place of Subjects in the Primary Curriculum: A National Perspective.

The Implementation of the National Curriculum in Primary Schools 1988 93The Implementation of the National Curriculum in Small Primary Schools 1989 97; The Primary Curriculum 1988 99; Primary Pedagogy; Teaching Methods: Some Distinctions; 'The Three Wise Men's Report': A Critical Appraisal; Whole Class Teaching: A Reappraisal; Teachers' 'Subject' Knowledge: Some Distinctions and Requirements; Subject Expertise and Its Deployment; Pri.

Sommario/riassunto

What you need to know about primary education in order to develop and improve it. Richards traces the history of primary education from the 1960s to the present day and raises key questions about its future.