Inside the Primary Classroom : 20 Years On.
Title:
Inside the Primary Classroom : 20 Years On.
Author:
Galton, Maurice.
ISBN:
9780203161272
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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 1980s, 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. This book presents the findings of this second round of research, and is therefore unique in being able authoritatively to document the changes - or lack of them - in primary education and teaching practice over the last twenty years.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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