Teaching in the Primary School (1989)

List of contents

1. Towards a Pedagogy of Primary Teaching: Vision Impossible. 2. Teaching in the Primary Classroom: Reform or Revolution? 3. Inside the Primary Classroom: Teachers in Perpetual Motion. 4. Pupils in the Primary Classroom: Loneliness in a Crowded Room. 5. Plowden Revisited: What Went Wrong? 6. Direct Instruction and Factory Model of Teaching. 7. Progressive Theory and Negotiated Learning. 8. It’s all about Relationships: Turning Teachers into Teddy Bears. 9. Personal Postscript and Dilemmas of the Teacher Trainer.

About the author

Galton, Maurice

Summary

Originally published in 1989, this book reviews teaching methods and curriculum practice against the reality of classroom practice and educational objective and policies. In some ways a re-appraisal of progressive individual and group teaching and learning methods, together with practical guidelines for teachers.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Galton
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.10.2019
• EAN: 9781138307964
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30796-4
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Teaching skills and techniques, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching skills & techniques, Philosophy and theory of education, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, Educational strategies and policy