Developing Pedagogy

PART ONE: CONCEPTS IN PRIMARY EDUCATION/Towards a New Perspective on Children's Learning?/Just for Fun?/The Child as Active Learner and Meaning Maker/Defining Classroom Knowledge/The Part that Children Play/Critical Pedagogy Empowerment and Learning/PART TWO: PEDAGOGIC ISSUES/Organizing the Primary Classroom Environment as a Context for Learning/Balancing Individual and the Group/A Dilemma for the Constructivist Teacher/`Sally Would You Like to Sit Down?'/How Teachers use Politeness and Indirect Discourse/The Literary Hour/A Case for Listening to Children/Silence as a Fortress and Prison/PART THREE: APPLICATION OF PRACTICE/What Is Curriculum?/Will the Curriculum Caterpillar Ever Learn to Fly?/Challenging Prescription in Ideology and Practice/The Case of Sunny First School/The Impact of the National Curriculum on Play in Reception Class/Value Pluralism Democracy and Education for Citizenship/ICT in Subject Teaching an Opportunity for Curriculum Renewal?/Critical Literacy and the Case for It in the Early Years of School