The Primary Curriculum: Learning from International Perspectives

by Linda Hargreaves

This book is concerned with the relationships and tensions in education between children's needs and societies' demands, questions which primary teachers everywhere face on a daily basis, such as:
* how does society's view of children and childhood affect teaching and learning?
* how do the dictates of the education system, including a national curriculum, shape teaching practice?
* how do the conventions of classroom practice fit with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041515832X
• ISBN13: 9780415158329
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"