Teaching the Primary Curriculum for Constructive Learning

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.

Dr Michael Littledyke. Specialisms: science, design and technology, with an interest in drama in education. Research interests: he has published extensively in the fields of science, science education, environmental education and drama in education. He is the author of Live Issues: Drama Strategies for Personal, Social and Moral Education (Questions Publishers, 1998). Dr Laura Huxford. Specialisms: English and special education needs. Research interests: she has published widely in the area of acquisition of literacy skills by young children.