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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Galton, Maurice J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Elementary--Great Britain.

Education, Elementary.

Elementary school teaching--Great Britain.

Elementary school teaching.

Educational change--Great Britain.

Educational change.

Observation (Educational method).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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...

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-246) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-69940-9

0-203-26932-2

0-203-16127-0

1-280-32763-4

1-134-69941-7

9780203161272

OCLC:

277629401