Cassell Education
4 total works
Do children still matter in education? With its focus on children's learning in the initial three years of schooling, this book contains the first part of a report of an ethnographic study of individual pupils from the ages of four to 11 in an English primary school.
Promoting Quality in Learning
by Patricia Broadfoot, Marilyn Osborn, and Claire Planel
Published 1 January 2000
Are English children able to grasp grammar better or worse than that of children in other countries? Are they better or worse at numeracy than their neighbours? Does the English education system measure up to the challenge from its competitors? This is an examination of the education system in England as compared with neighbouring countries, such as France. This text shows what pupils in England and France are doing in the classroom and what standards they achieve. The voices of the pupils themselves articulate numerous perceptions.
Changing English Primary Schools?
by Professor Andrew Pollard, Patricia Broadfoot, Paul Croll, Marilyn Osborn, and Dorothy Abbott
Published 1 May 1994
Presents the findings of the Primary Assessment Curriculum and Experience (PACE) project, which set out to discover the classroom effects of the 1988 Education Reform Act. The book describes changes in school management styles, teachers' views of their professionalism and forms of teaching.
