Developing Pedagogy

PART ONE: CONCEPTS IN PRIMARY EDUCATION
Towards a New Perspective on Children's Learning? - Andrew Pollard
Just for Fun? - Janet Moyles
The Child as Active Learner and Meaning Maker
Defining Classroom Knowledge - Mary Phillips Manke
The Part that Children Play
Critical Pedagogy, Empowerment and Learning - Sonia Nieto
PART TWO: PEDAGOGIC ISSUES
Organizing the Primary Classroom Environment as a Context for Learning - Pam Pointon and Ruth Kershner
Balancing Individual and the Group - Margery D Osborne
A Dilemma for the Constructivist Teacher
`Sally, Would You Like to Sit Down?' - Mary Phillips Manke
How Teachers use Politeness and Indirect Discourse
The Literary Hour - Roger Hancock and Melian Mansfield
A Case for Listening to Children
Silence as a Fortress and Prison - Karen Gallas
PART THREE: APPLICATION OF PRACTICE
What Is Curriculum? - Alistair Ross
Will the Curriculum Caterpillar Ever Learn to Fly? - Mike Davies and Gwyn Edwards
Challenging Prescription in Ideology and Practice - Bob Jeffrey
The Case of Sunny First School
The Impact of the National Curriculum on Play in Reception Class - Elizabeth Wood
Value Pluralism, Democracy and Education for Citizenship - Don Rowe
ICT in Subject Teaching an Opportunity for Curriculum Renewal? - Michael Bonnet, Angela McFarlane and Jacquetta Williams
Critical Literacy and the Case for It in the Early Years of School - Kathy Hall