The Study Of Primary Education

Part 1 Teachers and teaching: teaching styles; exploraty and didactic teaching; teaching styles; an alternative typology; dilemmas of schooling and formal/informal teaching; teaching styles and children's progress; teaching styles and pupils progress; a re-analysis; inside primary classrooms-a view from ORACLE; informal primary education; teacher's accounts; teaching modes; handling classroom complexity; vision and reality of the primary classroom. Part 2 Children and learning: children's behaviour in junior school classrooms; classroom tasks; classroom task's-a response; curriculum provision; priorities and circumstances; opoortunity to learn; time and structure for special eeducational needs; society in the classroom; making sense of school; starting school; gender and the classroom; gender and the classroom; intellectual search of young children; children's control of learning; understanding classroom efectiveness; young children's attainment and progress in school; the effects of streaming in the primary school; health and stress in the classroom; developing teaching; teachers' problems with children's problems; craftmanship and artistry in teaching. Part 3 Teachers as researchers: research as a basis for teaching; action research-a definition; action research in action; teaching as finding out; learning about the classroom through diary keeping; discovering about discovery learning through classroom enquiry; responsibility in learning; studying classroom organization; reflective teaching in action; the effect of teacher enquiry on the child; classroom enquiry as a way of understanding learning; using observation to learn about the classroom; teachers working together in school through action research; the meaning of reflective teaching; what is appealing about action research?; a teacher's learning.