Professional Studies in Primary Education

2. Revised Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4462-8076-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 186 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

This textbook provides a wide-ranging overview of everything you will need to know to prepare you for initial teacher training and your early career in the primary classroom.

Covering practical issues including planning, assessment and classroom organisation, and thought-provoking topics such as reflecting on your own teaching practice and developing critical thinking skills, this textbook gives you a pragmatic and insightful understanding of teaching in primary schools.

Key new edition features:

- Updated coverage of education policy
- Links to the Teachers’ Standards

- A new Work in Schools feature addressing key issues student teachers encounter

- Extended coverage of planning and assessment

- A new chapter on workplace learning exploring how to develop as a classroom professional

- Coverage of differences in teaching throughout the UK.

This is essential reading for all students on primary initial teacher education courses including university-based (PGCE, Bed, BA with QTS), and schools-based (School Direct, SCITT) routes into teaching.

Additional online resources

There are also updated free resources supporting and extending chapters, including activities, case studies, further reading and useful web links.

Hilary Cooper is Professor Emeritus of History and Pedagogy at the University of Cumbria.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Hilary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
History of Education
Philosophy of Education and Theories of Learning
Short, Medium and Long-Term Planning

Monitoring, Assessment and Record Keeping
Classroom Organisation and the Learning Environment
The Role of the Adult

PART TWO: INCLUSIVE DIMENSIONS OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
Reflective Practice in the Early Years: A Focus on Issues Related to Teaching Reception-age Children
Inclusion and Special Educational Needs

Behaviour Management

Personal and Social Development
Dialogical, Enquiry and Participatory Approaches to Learning
Race, Culture and Ethnicity: Teachers and their Pupils
PART THREE: FROM TRAINEE TO TEACHER
‘Learning Teaching’ in School
Reflective Practice

Enquiry and Critical Thinking

Exploring Issues in Education
Statutory Professional Responsibilities

Moving into Newly Qualified Teacher Status and Beyond

Über Autor(innen)

Cooper, Hilary
Hilary Cooper is Professor Emeritus of History and Pedagogy at the University of Cumbria. After many years teaching in London primary schools and undertaking her doctoral research on child development using data collected as a class teacher, she lectured in education at Goldsmiths’ College, London University. In 1993 she became Director of Professional Studies in the Department of Education at Lancaster University, then Reader, and later Professor of Education at St Martin’s College, now the University of Cumbria. She has published widely, in numerous languages; the underlying theme of all her books is ‘teaching creatively’. She has been a keynote speaker at, and continues to organise international conferences.