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The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys
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ABSTRACT
The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is the outcome of the Cambridge Primary Review – England’s biggest enquiry into primary education for over forty years. Fully independent of government, it was launched in 2006 to investigate the condition and future of primary education at a time of change and uncertainty and after two decades of almost uninterrupted reform. Ranging over ten broad themes and drawing on a vast array of evidence, the Review published thiry-one interim reports, including twenty-eight surveys of published research, provoking media headlines and public debate, before presenting its final report and recommendations.
This book brings together the twenty-eight research surveys, specially commissioned from sixty-five leading academics in the areas under scrutiny and now revised and updated, to create what is probably the most comprehensive overview and evaluation of research in primary education yet published. A particular feature is the prominence given to international and comparative perspectives. With an introduction from Robin Alexander, the Review’s director, the book is divided into eight sections, covering:
- children’s lives and voices: school, home and community
- children’s development, learning, diversity and needs
- aims, values and contexts for primary education
- the structure and content of primary education
- outcomes, standards and assessment in primary education
- teaching in primary schools: structures and processes
- teaching in primary schools: training, development and workforce reform
- policy frameworks: governance, funding, reform and quality assurance.
The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is an essential reference tool for professionals, researchers, students and policy-makers working in the fields of early years, primary and secondary education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|12 pages
Introduction: research, the Cambridge Primary Review and the quality of education
part |4 pages
Part 1 Children’s lives and voices: school, home and community
chapter 2|32 pages
Children and their primary schools: pupils’ voices
chapter 4|14 pages
Parenting, caring and educating
chapter 5|40 pages
Primary schools and other agencies
part |4 pages
Part 2 Children’s development, learning, diversity and needs
chapter 7|25 pages
Children’s social development, peer interaction and classroom learning
chapter 8|22 pages
Children in primary education: demography, culture, diversity, inclusion
chapter 9|24 pages
Learning needs and difficulties among children of primary school age: definition, identification, provision and issues
part |6 pages
Part 3 Aims, values and contexts for primary education
chapter 10|14 pages
Aims for primary education: the changing national context
chapter 11|21 pages
Aims for primary education: changing global contexts
chapter 13|35 pages
Aims and values in primary education: England and other countries
part |4 pages
Part 4 The structure and content of primary education
chapter 14|30 pages
The structure of primary education: England and other countries
chapter 15|40 pages
Primary curriculum and assessment: England and other countries
part |4 pages
Part 5 Outcomes, standards and assessment in primary education
chapter 17|26 pages
Standards and quality in English primary schools over time: the national evidence
chapter 18|23 pages
Standards in English primary education: the international evidence
chapter 19|37 pages
The quality of learning: assessment alternatives for primary education
part |4 pages
Part 6 Teaching in primary schools: structures and processes
chapter 20|23 pages
Learning and teaching in primary schools: insights from TLRP
chapter 21|41 pages
Classes, groups and transitions: structures for learning and teaching
part |4 pages
Part 7 Teaching in primary schools: training, development and workforce reform
chapter 23|22 pages
Primary schools: the professional environment
chapter 24|53 pages
Primary teachers: initial teacher education, continuing professional development and school leadership development
part |6 pages
Part 8 Policy frameworks: governance, funding, reform and quality assurance