It is now widely recognized that learners are more successful when they are active participants in the learning relationship. This book offers a general introduction to primary education and child development, using the learning relationship between teachers and children as its focus. Divided into two parts, the first looks at the child's contribution to the learning relationship, and the second examines that of the teacher.
Author(s): Neil Kitson
Edition: 1
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 208
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
Introduction: teaching a learning relationship......Page 10
Just for fun? The child as active learner and meaning maker......Page 18
Children's development 3 7: the learning relationship in the early years......Page 36
Cognitive development 7 11: the learning relationship in the junior years......Page 57
Children with special educational needs: supporting the learning relationship......Page 74
Keeping track: observing, assessing and recording in the learning relationship......Page 94
Primary culture and classroom teaching: the learning relationship in context......Page 111
Look back and wonder: the reflective practitioner and the learning relationship......Page 127
Classroom talk: communicating within the learning relationship......Page 148
Managing primary schools: facilitating the learning relationship......Page 166
Back to the future: the learning relationship in initial teacher training......Page 181
Index......Page 197
