- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Creative Teachers in Primary Schools
About this book
Is creative teaching still possible in English schools? Can teachers maintain and promote their own interests and beliefs as well as deliver a prescribed National Curriculum?
Originally published in 1995, this book explores creative teachers' attempts to pursue their brand of teaching despite the changes. Peter Woods has discovered a range of strategies and adaptations to this end among such teachers, including resisting change which runs counter to their own values; appropriating the National Curriculum within their own ethos; enhancing their role through the use of others; and enriching their work through the National Curriculum to provide quality learning experiences. If all else fails, such teachers remove themselves from the system and take their creativity elsewhere. A strong theme of self-determination runs through these experiences.
While acknowledging hard realities, the book is ultimately optimistic, and a tribute to the dedication and inspiration of primary teachers.
The book makes an important contribution to educational theory, showing a range of responses to intensification as well as providing many detailed examples of collaborative research methods.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Adapting to intensification
- 2 Resisting through collaboration: A whole-school perspective on the National Curriculum
- 3 The creative use and defence of space: Appropriation through the environment
- 4 The charisma of the critical other: Enhancing the role of the teacher
- 5 Teaching, and researching the teaching of, a history topic: An experiment in collaboration
- 6 Managing marginality: Aspects of the career of a primary school head
- 7 Self-determination among primary school teachers
- References
- Name index
- Subject index