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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783882303321

Titolo

Inside the primary classroom : 20 years on / / Maurice Galton. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-69940-9

0-203-26932-2

0-203-16127-0

1-280-32763-4

1-134-69941-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GaltonMaurice J

Disciplina

372.941

Soggetti

Education, Elementary - Great Britain

Elementary school teaching - Great Britain

Educational change - Great Britain

Observation (Educational method)

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. 233-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations; List of contributors; Introduction; Two decades of primary education; The classroom environment: a framework for learning; Teaching in today's primary classroom; Pupils and their teachers in the KS2 classroom; Establishing a working consensus: teaching styles and pupil types; Pupil performance in basic skills: 1976 and 1996; Why have standards fallen?; Primary education for the millennium; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years primary education has been the subject of continuing debate  with questions of standards and their apparent decline being raised with alarming regularity. Central in informing these debates has been the ORACLE study of groupwork in primary classrooms.  Published during the 1980's, the study described in detail the daily life of the primary classroom, the teaching styles used by teachers and the responses of pupils.  That research has now been replicated - with over two thirds of the schools originally studied being revisited, using the



same tests and observation instruments...