Teaching the Primary Curriculum for Constructive Learning,Michae

Taylor & Francis

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. > Chapter 1 Constructivist ideas about learning, Michael Littledyke; Chapter 2 Teaching for constructive learning, Michael Littledyke; Chapter 3 Children constructing their understanding of written language, Laura Huxford; Chapter 4 Constructing meaning through literature, Chris Eddershaw; Chapter 5 How does a constructivist perspective influence mathematics teaching?, David Co.