Originally published in 1982. This book analyses developments in primary education since 1974 and from this analysis draws out issues gaining rapidly in currency and seem likely to have significant impact on primary education in the following decade. As well as including a substantial number of papers written specially for the book, it draws on some of the best of writing on primary education at the time. This is extremely useful for those interested in curriculum history.
Originally published in 1982. This book analyses developments in primary education since 1974 and from this analysis draws out issues gaining rapidly in currency and seem likely to have significant impact on primary education in the following decade.
General Editor's Preface Philip H. Taylor Foreword Colin Richards Part
1: Introduction: The End of a Golden Age?
1. Primary Education: 1974-80 Colin
Richards Part 2: The Primary Curriculum: The End of Laissez-Faire?
2.
Introduction
3. The Curriculum Her Majestys Inspectors of Schools
4. The
Curriculum in Primary Schools: Conclusion to 'A View of the Curriculum' Her
Majestys Inspectors of Schools
5. Curriculum Consistency Colin Richards
6.
Curriculum Policy Making in Primary Schools Roy Garland
7. Should Science Be
Taught in Primary Schools? Jack Kerr and Elizabeth Engel
8. Teaching Young
Children About the Past Joan Blyth
9. New Directions in Nursery Education
Joan Tamburrini
10. The Primary Curriculum: A Proper Basis for Planning David
Oliver
11. Teacher Education and the Primary Curriculum Robin Alexander Part
3: Evaluation And Accountability: The End Of Intuition?
12. Introduction
13.
Who's Afraid of Evaluation? Barry MacDonald
14. Accountability, Progressive
Education and School-based Evaluation John Elliott
15. Matching Wynne Harlen
Part 4: Policy, Organization and Management: The End of Teacher Autonomy?
16.
Introduction
17. The Primary Teacher as Servant of the State John White
18.
The Politics of Primary Contraction Eric Briault
19. Organization Development
and the Primary School Harry Gray Part 5: Studying Primary Classrooms: The
End of the Black Box?
20. Introduction
21. Multiple Realities and Their
Reproduction in Infants Classrooms Ronald King
22. Strategies and Tactics in
Junior School Classrooms Maurice Galton
23. Progressive Education: A
Reformulation from Close Observations of Children Stephen Rowland Part 6:
Postscript: The End of Primary Schooling?
24. Introduction
25. Changes in
Western Society: Educational Implications Tom Stonier
Colin Richards