ABSTRACT
Primary teaching is an immensely complicated business. It involves the interplay of so many elements including interpersonal, intellectual, physical, spiritual, even aesthetic dimensions. Neither is it one thing, but it changes in form and substance from hour to hour, lesson to lesson, class to class and year to year. Some people see it as scientific in orientation, involving the selection of the best ways to ‘deliver’ material to young minds; others stress its artistic side and place emphasis on the ‘feel’ or style of teaching. So what is this thing called primary teaching? It is the purpose of this unit to open this up for discussion.
