Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction: Reshaping Education in the 1990s: Perspectives on Primary Schooling -- Curriculum Issues -- Age or Stage? Research Findings Relating to Assessment Frameworks -- Assessment of Literacy and Numeracy Acquired Before School -- Primary Science in the Mid-1990s: Grounds for Optimism -- Working Together in Primary Schools: Changing Relationships at Key Stage 2 -- Profiles of Productive Schools: Processes of Organizational Self-Renewal -- Cross-cultural Perspectives on Eating: A Hidden Curriculum for Food -- Teacher Training -- The Reform of Primary Teacher Training: The Views of Parents -- The Realization of Partnership in a Primary Articled Teacher Course -- Professionalism -- Teachers' Professional Perspectives: Continuity and Change -- Creating Atmosphere and Tone in Primary Classrooms -- Gender and School Leadership: Using Case Studies to Challenge the Frameworks -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.