Learning and Teaching Around the World: Comparative and International Studies in Primary Education

Learning and Teaching Around the World is a wide-ranging introduction to diverse experiences, practices and developments in global primary education. It explores different contexts for children’s learning, and methods and purposes of primary education, in settings across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australasia, and addresses wider issues such as the rise of refugee learners and large multi-grade classes. With an explicit focus on comparative and international studies and improving the knowledge, understanding and practice of effective pedagogies for children’s learning, this book reflects on key issues such as:   Standards for learner-centred education   Patterns of inclusion and exclusion    Defining ‘teacher professionalism’   The impact of global education agendas    Language policy for schooling and assessment  Learning and Teaching Around the World is an essential text for those wishing to develop a critical understanding of the experiences of primary teachers and children around the world. Aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate education studies students, the scope of this book will support all students in developing knowledge of primary education and of the diverse needs of learners in an era of global movement of children and families.

Politics & Social Sciences

Safford, Kimberly

Chamberlain, Liz

Sociology

Routledge

Learning and Teaching Around the World isawide-ranging introduction to diverse experiences, practices and developments in global primary education. It explores different contexts for children’s learning, and methods and purposes of primary education, in settings across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australasia, and addresses wider issues such as the rise of refugee learners and large multi-grade classes. With an explicit focus on comparative and international studies and improving the knowledge, understanding and practice of effective pedagogies for children’s learning, this book reflects on key issues such as: <ul>
<li>Standards for learner-centred education</li> <li>Patterns of inclusion and exclusion </li> <li>Defining ‘teacher professionalism’</li> <li>The impact of global education agendas </li> <li>Language policy for schooling and assessment</li> </ul>
Learning and Teaching Around the World is an essential text for those wishing to develop a critical understanding of the experiences of primary teachers and children around the world. Aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate education studies students, the scope of this book will support all students in developing knowledge of primary education and of the diverse needs of learners in an era of global movement of children and families.

Building Communities of Engaged Readers

Reading for pleasure urgently requires a higher profile to raise attainment and increase children’s engagement as self-motivated and socially interactive readers. Building Communities of Engaged Readers highlights the concept of ‘Reading Teachers’ who are not only knowledgeable about texts for children, but are aware of their own reading identities and prepared to share their enthusiasm and understanding of what being a reader means. Sharing the processes of reading with young readers is an innovative approach to developing new generations of readers. Examining the interplay between the ‘will and the skill’ to read, the book distinctively details a reading for pleasure pedagogy and demonstrates that reader engagement is strongly influenced by relationships between children, teachers, families and communities. Importantly it provides compelling evidence that reciprocal reading communities in school encompass: <ul>
<li>a shared concept of what it means to be a reader in the 21st century;</li> <li>considerable teacher and child knowledge of children’s literature and other texts;</li> <li>pedagogic practices which acknowledge and develop diverse reader identities;</li> <li>spontaneous ‘inside-text talk’ on the part of all members;</li> <li>a shift in the focus of control and new social spaces that encourage choice and children’s rights as readers. </li> </ul>
Written by experts in the literacy field and illustrated throughout with examples from the project schools, it is essential reading for all those concerned with improving young people’s enjoyment of and attainment in reading.

Building Communities of Engaged Readers: Reading for pleasure

Literature & Fiction

Cremin, Teresa

Mottram, Marilyn

Collins, Fiona M.

Powell, Sacha

History & Criticism

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