PART ONE: CONCEPTS IN PRIMARY EDUCATION
Andrew Pollard
Towards a New Perspective on Children's Learning?
Janet Moyles
Just for Fun?
The Child as Active Learner and Meaning Maker
Mary Phillips Manke
Defining Classroom Knowledge
The Part that Children Play
Sonia Nieto
Critical Pedagogy, Empowerment and Learning
PART TWO: PEDAGOGIC ISSUES
Pam Pointon and Ruth Kershner
Organizing the Primary Classroom Environment as a Context for Learning
Margery D Osborne
Balancing Individual and the Group
A Dilemma for the Constructivist Teacher
Mary Phillips Manke
`Sally, Would You Like to Sit Down?'
How Teachers use Politeness and Indirect Discourse
Roger Hancock and Melian Mansfield
The Literary Hour
A Case for Listening to Children
Karen Gallas
Silence as a Fortress and Prison
PART THREE: APPLICATION OF PRACTICE
Alistair Ross
What Is Curriculum?
Mike Davies and Gwyn Edwards
Will the Curriculum Caterpillar Ever Learn to Fly?
Bob Jeffrey
Challenging Prescription in Ideology and Practice
The Case of Sunny First School
Elizabeth Wood
The Impact of the National Curriculum on Play in Reception Class
Don Rowe
Value Pluralism, Democracy and Education for Citizenship
Michael Bonnet, Angela McFarlane and Jacquetta Williams
ICT in Subject Teaching an Opportunity for Curriculum Renewal?
Kathy Hall
Critical Literacy and the Case for It in the Early Years of School