Product Description: Islam in the School Curriculum explores the conceptualisation of school-based Islam on two levels: as a symbolic category in English religious education as a consequence of policy shifts, and as pedagogic discourse at the local community level in state and Muslim schools...read more

The National Curriculum is one of the most important changes in education this century. Consequently, every parent and student-teacher should read this book. It will be invaluable for teachers returning to the profession, and even experienced teachers will find the information on recentchanges to the National Curriculum useful.This book, called `a marvel of compression' on its first publication and praised for its clarity and balance, has now been thoroughly revised by Bob Moon in consultation with a team of experts. It explains in clear language how the National Curriculum is structured, what impact it has in theclassroom, how pupils are assessed and tested, how the teaching of foundation subjects is organized, what rights parents have, and how special needs are catered for.This new edition takes into account the radical restructuring of the national curriculum which was introduced in September 1995. It is anticipated that this restuctured curriculum will remain substantially unchanged for at least the next five years, making this book of lasting and vitalsignificance for everyone involved and affected by education.

Product Description: Schooling, Society and Curriculum offers a much needed reassessment and realignment of curriculum studies in the UK and international contexts. Comprising a collection of eleven original chapters by prominent, nationally and internationally known experts in the field of curriculum studies, the book leads and fosters critical, generic debates about formal education and its relationships to wider society...read more

In 2000, the school curriculum in England was equipped - for the first time in the country's history - with an extensive set of aims and purposes. In this book, leading experts in the teaching of school subjects examine the significance of the new aims for the reform of the curriculum.In two general introductory chapters John White discusses the validity of the aims and how they might be realized in schools. The remainder of the book focuses on subject specific areas and how these need to be brought into line with the new aims, so as to produce a more relevant and enjoyable curriculum experience for pupils, including more opportunities for choice of activities. The book concludes with suggestions about how government policy on the curriculum should now succeed.This portrayal of the school curriculum today and how it could be developed in line with the new aims will be of interest to those studying education with a particular focus on the areas of curriculum, assessment, school management, philosophy of education and the history of education. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The particular strength of this book is Geoff Whitty's grasp on and insights into the politics of education... he is able to bring to bear an authoritative perspective which is unrivaled in the United Kingdom. there is no other current book which compares in terms of the breadth and depth of this' - Professor Stephen Ball, Institute of Education, University of London This book aims to make sense of the changes in education policy over the past decade, using the resources of the sociology and politics of education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book tackles the contentious issue of whether and how thinking should be taught in schools. It explores how best to help children become effective thinkers and learners. The book also examines whether there is one set of underlying cognitive skills and strategies which can be applied across all the curriculum subjects and beyond. Its main thrust, however, is a detailed examination of approaches to developing cognitive skills which are specific to the National Curriculum.The book provides chapters from both generalists and subject specialists to illustrate how teachers in different subject areas can benefit from taking a cognitive approach to their subject. It will give teachers a clear understanding of different approaches to teaching thinking and how these fit together.

In this important book the author looks back on the 'knowledge question'. What knowledge gets selected to be validated as school knowledge or as part of the school curriculum, and why is it selected? Looking forward, Young discusses how most developed countries have high levels of participation in post-compulsory education, but still use curricula designed for a time when only the elite pursued further education. He argues the need to rethink post-16 education to shift focus onto vocational education, school-work issues and lifelong learning.

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Product Description: In this volume, educationists and experts on values, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, discuss the question of values and the curriculum in societies which are changing rapidly and in which disagreements about values are sometimes acrimonious. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Covering each of the core curriculum areas in turn, this is a reference on school subject teaching. The authors assess the development of teaching within each subject area since the 1944 Education Act up to the year 2000. Future challenges are also explored. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Quickie (education, U. of Sheffield) agrees that schools of the near future must teach literacy, numeracy, and other skills, but wonders what else children need to learn to life in the present and coming society. He proposes his curriculum for life as an alternative to the British National Curriculum, and focuses on such themes as social development, thinking skills, parenting, citizenship, and work related learning. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this important book the author looks back on the 'knowledge question'. What knowledge gets selected to be validated as school knowledge or as part of the school curriculum, and why is it selected? Looking forward, Young discusses how most developed countries have high levels of participation in post-compulsory education, but still use curricula designed for a time when only the elite pursued further education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work offers a comprehensive account of the development of English as a school subject. It also examines the debates over English which have centred on the National Curriculum and its assessment. Drawing on data from two recent studies, it investigates what is taught in the English curriculum...read more

Product Description: Ted Wragg offers a novel and highly imaginative view of the school curriculum, using a unique three-dimensional model. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A critical survey of the recent history of National Curriculum English at the secondary level. Roger Knight draws on good classroom practice to show that neither the 1990 nor the Revised Order does justice to English as a moral enterprise with literature at its centre. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The National Curriculum is one of the most important changes in education this century. Consequently, every parent and student-teacher should read this book. It will be invaluable for teachers returning to the profession, and even experienced teachers will find the information on recentchanges to the National Curriculum useful...read more

Product Description: The 4th edition of this classic text for trainee teachers and interested parents. The new edition has extra material on Curriculum 2000, testing, special needs, and parents' role.

Product Description: Completed in the wake of the Government's acceptance of the Dearing Report, this work aims to enable primary and secondary school teachers to develop, introduce, manage and monitor the cross-curricular themes of the National Curriculum...read more

Product Description: Building upon the ideas explored in "Redefining the Whole Curriculum ....", this book presents practical means of addressing the whole curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties. It draws upon successful classroom practice and explores ideas developed by teachers in a variety of situations...read more

Product Description: When The National Curriculum was imposed on schools, particular concern was expressed at the likely impact on early education of a curriculum which is at odds with research evidence and with developments in most other countries.It is now time to attempt an evaluation of that impact, especially in the light of the conflicting claims which are emerging...read more

Product Description: Originally written after four years of the National Curriculum, at a time when adjustments and radical changes were being implemented, this book analyses from various points of view what is wrong with the National Curriculum and presents a series of options for putting it right...read more

Product Description: Drawing on so far unpublished documents, "A Lesson for Us All" tells of the intrigue and pressures that surrounded the introduction of the National Curriculum, the most sweeping educational reform since 1944, and examines the roles of three education secretaries: Kenneth Baker, John MacGregor and Kenneth Clarke...read more

Product Description: Provides information on the key issues of concern to teachers and schools implementing the Standard Assessment Tasks (SATs). The text covers the management of procedures, the effects on teaching, the reliability and validity of assessments, the difficulties teachers experience and much more...read more