Teaching the Primary Curriculum for Constructive Learning

Michael Littledyke, Laura Huxford

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781138163911
• eBook ISBN: 9781134100613
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

First Published in 1998. There is a current preoccupation with educational standards with claims that overall standards of achievement have fallen. The purpose of this book, therefore, is to address the question of how children learn across the primary National Curriculum subjects, with implications for effective teaching approaches. The book emphasises a constructivist view of learning, which acknowledges that children have views and attitudes which are formed as a result of experiences in and out of school and that these must be taken into account if meaningful and transferable learning is to be achieved.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Constructivist ideas about learning
• 2 Teaching for constructive learning
• 3 Children constructing their understanding of written language
• 4 Constructing meaning through literature
• 5 How does a constructivist perspective influence mathematics teaching?
• 6 Science: Brenda grapples with the properties of a mern
• 7 Design and technology: constructive learning in action
• 8 The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in education: a constructivist perspective
• 9 Developing a sense of place: a constructivist approach to geographical enquiry
• 10 Constructing history: all our yesterdays
• 11 Constructive learning in Physical Education
• 12 Let's look at it another way: a constructivist view of art education
• 13 Teaching composing in the music curriculum
• 14 Experiential Religious Education and the constructivist paradigm
• 15 Promoting access across the curriculum
• Index