170 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN 1 85856 237 6
Published January 2001

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, primary education in England faces major challenge. Government is attempting to "modernise" both primary schooling and the primary teaching profession. The contributors to this book provide new perspectives on what has been, might be or should be achieved in teaching, learning, assessment, curriculum, management, professional development, special needs, early years, inspection and the teaching profession itself.

Contents
Introduction: Ages, myths and teacher autonomy:changes in English primary education
Colin Richards
Learning and Teaching: Towards a new perspective on children's learning? Andrew Pollard
Dancing in Oklahoma: the pupil as a 'professional learner' in the next century Mauridce Galton
Curriculum and Assessment: Entitlement or Neo-Elementary? - The changing English primary curriculum Colin Richards
Through a glass darkly: assessing the future? Colin Conner
Assessing schools: quantity is no substitute for quality Norman Thomas
Children's needs: Early Years: then, now and next Marion Dowling
Charlotte's Web: special educational needs in mainstream schools Ann Lewis
Management: Modernising primary teaching: some issues related to performance management Jim Campbell
Primary school management: past, present and future Geoff Southworth
Teacher Professionalism: Teachers' professional development and the sound of a hand clap Marion Dodds
Changing aspects of primary teachers' professionalism: driving forward or driven backward?
Denis Hayes

Colin Richards is a Professor at St. Martin's College and Honorary Professor of Education, University of Warwick.