Teaching the Primary Curriculum for Constructive Learning

Providing guidance in teaching across all subjects of the primary curriculum, this text draws on research in constructivist ideas in children's learning which shows that effective learning occurs when teachers understand and build on children's previous views and experience. 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.