Classroom Pedagogy and Primary Practice

✍ Scribed by David McNamara

• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this provocative book, David McNamara argues that a `teacher-centred' approch to teaching in the primary school, especially in the later years is actually in the best interests of the children - that the teacher must be seen to have ultimate responsibility for what and how children learn. He attempts to define the distinctive professional expertise of the primary teacher - the application of subject knowledge within the special circumstances of the classroom - and to show how this expertise can be articulated to establish a body of educational knowledge which is both derived from practice and practically useful to others.At a time when increasing emphasis is being placed on the role of the practising teacher as a mentor in intitial teacher education, this book will help teachers at all levels to define their own role in the creation of educational knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
On teaching......Page 19
On learning......Page 35
The teacher's responsibility for learning......Page 49
Relating teaching to children's aptitudes......Page 57
Organising teaching to promote learning......Page 74
Organising subject matter for learning......Page 91
Pedagogy in practice: the case of subtraction......Page 110
Teachers' pedagogic expertise......Page 120
The professional authority of the teacher......Page 140
Notes and references......Page 157
Index......Page 173