The politics of primary education /

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Imprint:Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1997.
Description:xiii, 159 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2880299
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Other authors / contributors:Cullingford, Cedric.
ISBN:0335195784 (pbk.)
0335195792 (hard)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Changes in primary education
  • Early childhood education finds its voice but is anyone listening?
  • The market experiment
  • Children's experience of primary schools has it changed?
  • The uses and abuses of assessment
  • International comparisons and the quality of primary teaching
  • Leading and managing primary schools the changing world of the local education authority
  • Governors, parents and primary schools
  • Voyages of discovery changing perspectives in research on primary school practice
  • A vision the 21st century primary school
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index