Primary schools and teachers in England are tasked with providing a Broad and Balanced curriculum.
As pressures of standardised testing and the focus on English and maths impact on teaching time, how can teachers ensure that they remain focused on this as an objective?
How do we ensure that the curriculum truly is Broad and Balanced?
How do ensure that we are educating the whole child?
This book provides both discussion of the current challenges and practical guidance and support on how to tackle them.
It informs and inspires new teachers to teach across the curriculum, and to empower the next generation of children to explore what is possible for them within their own future lives.
This second edition includes new chapters on curriculum design; alternative environments and learning spaces.
Edited by:
Susan Ogier
Imprint: Learning Matters Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 171mm,
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781529761047
ISBN 10: 1529761042
Series: Exploring the Primary Curriculum
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 24 February 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part 1 Understanding the Context of Children’s Lives: Supporting Holistic Education 1. Resourcing the spirit of the child: Creativity in the contemporary classroom - Kate Thorpe 2. Creating Space to Explore Self-identity - Rachel Mason 3. Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development - Tony Eaude 4. Child Mental Health and the Role of the Arts - Susan Ogier 5. Philosophy and Learning to Think - Aimee Quickfall 6. Relationship and Sex Education: Valuing and respecting difference - Bonnie Kerr 7. Curriculum design: Shaping purposeful learning - Karin Doull 8. Developing a supportive ethos for all learners - Carrie Winstanley Part 2 Making Learning Meaningful: Teaching and Assessing a Broad and Balanced Curriculum 9. Learning to Enquire: The role of the humanities - Tony Eaude 10. Stranger things in the classroom: Drawing inspiration from children’s visual culture - Robert Watts 11. Writing as an art form: an author’s perspective - Michael Rosen 12. Learning to thrive with nature - Tessa Willy, Richard Dunne and Emilie Martin 13. Balancing the equation - Pinky Jain 14. Connecting STEM with the Arts: Because It Makes Sense - Susan Ogier and Nick Corston 15. Alternative Environments: Physical and virtual spaces - Lynda Chinaka and Anthony Barlow 16. Assessing the whole child - Maria Vinney Part 3 The Reflective Teacher: Developing as a Professional in the Primary Classroom 17. Transforming learning spaces for a twenty-first century curriculum - Murray Hudson and Terry White 18. The personal in the professional - Teresa Cremin 19. Differing views of Professionalism: Implications for primary teachers - Tony Eaude 20. The creative teacher: Agency and empowerment - Kate Thorpe 21. Myth busting in the contemporary primary classroom - Robert Morgan
Susan Ogier is Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-Ordinator of Art and Design Education at University of Roehampton, UK.
