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Teaching the Primary Curriculum for Constructive Learning
First Published in 1998. There is a current preoccupation with educational standards with claims that overall standards of achievement have fallen. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to address the question of how children learn across the primary National Curriculum subjects, with implications for effective teaching approaches. The book emphasises a constructivist view of learning, which acknowledges that children have views and attitudes which are formed as a result of experiences in and out of school and that these must be taken into account if meaningful and transferable learning is to be achieved.
The Literacy Game
Containing invaluable insights from the original director of the National Literary Strategy (NLS) and its director of training, this book provides the only systematic exploration of the reform programme. A vital introduction and critical appraisal for pracititioners and students, The Literacy Game examines the origins, evolution and impact of the NLS, and provides a fully comprehensive contribution to the teaching of literacy and the management of educational change. This illuminating text: sets out the political background and context to literacy education in England over a decade from 1996 to 2006 explains and appraises the rationale and design underpinning the NLS, thereby rebutting some ...
Raising Standards in Literacy
Raising Standards in Literacy represents the best current thinking and research about literacy. The book is the outcome of a high-profile series of seminars on raising standards in literacy, and includes contributions from an impressive group of international researchers and policymakers. By offering a rich and unique mix of contemporary perspectives on literacy education, this book provides an invaluable source of study and insight into the latest research and developments in the teaching of literacy. It includes sections on: * how research into literacy teaching can inform new approaches found in England, the USA and Australia * the ways in which literacy education is developing in England, the USA and Australia * the issues involved in assessing progress in literacy and the validity of research claims made about standards of attainment. The book celebrates the apparent success of current literacy initiatives at the same time as raising questions about the feasibility and relevance of such initiatives to the literacy co-ordinators and consultants and for all those undertaking further study or research in literacy education.
Literacy and Gender
Literacy and Gender provides a major contribution to general debates about literacy and gender in schools. It advances the theory in literacy as a social practice as well as providing practical support to those researching literacy. A timely project, it is essential reading for anyone with an interest in applied linguistics, education or gender studies.
Educational Research and Policy-Making
Looking into the troubled relationship between ‘research’ and ‘policy-making’ in education; with contributions from leading UK educationalists, this book will be invaluable to academics wanting to learn from the experience of senior researchers.
Rapport sur le developpement dans le monde 2018
Chaque annee, le Rapport sur le developpement dans le monde de la Banque mondiale met en vedette un sujet d'importance capitale pour le developpement mondial. Le Rapport sur le developpement dans le monde 2018 - APPRENDRE pour realiser la promesse de l'education - est le premier consacre integralement a l'education. Et le moment s'y prete particulierement : l'education a toujours ete essentielle au bien-etre de l'etre humain, mais elle l'est plus encore en cette periode de rapides mutations economiques et sociales. Le meilleur moyen de preparer les enfants et les jeunes a l'avenir est de placer l'apprentissage au centre de toutes les interventions de promotion de l'education. Le Rapport sur ...
The Great Literacy Debate
This book is the first definitive, and objective, attempt to examine the actual impact of The National Literacy Strategy, and its secondary version, The Framework for English.
The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys
The companion volume to 'Children, their World, their Education', this book contains 28 surveys of published research which were specially commissioned for the Cambridge Primary Review, all re-edited and updated.
Handbook of Spelling
Brings together international, interdisciplinary research on spelling performance problems from cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, computational approaches, connectionism and educational research. Covers topics such as the diversity and evolution of writing systems; analyses of spelling errors and latencies; computational models of spelling; developmental stages and causal transitions; abnormal spelling processes in developmental and acquired dyslexia, deafness, hyperlexia and other syndromes and much more.
