1st Edition

Teaching in the Primary School (1989)

By Maurice Galton Copyright 1989
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1989, this book reviews teaching methods and curriculum practice against the reality of classroom practice and educational objective and policies. In some ways a re-appraisal of progressive individual and group teaching and learning methods, together with practical guidelines for teachers.

    1. Towards a Pedagogy of Primary Teaching: Vision Impossible. 2. Teaching in the Primary Classroom: Reform or Revolution? 3. Inside the Primary Classroom: Teachers in Perpetual Motion. 4. Pupils in the Primary Classroom: Loneliness in a Crowded Room. 5. Plowden Revisited: What Went Wrong? 6. Direct Instruction and Factory Model of Teaching. 7. Progressive Theory and Negotiated Learning. 8. It’s all about Relationships: Turning Teachers into Teddy Bears. 9. Personal Postscript and Dilemmas of the Teacher Trainer.

    Biography

    Galton, Maurice