Creative Teachers in Primary Schools (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Woods, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367345595 ISBN 13: 9780367345594

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Is creative teaching still possible in English schools? Can teachers maintain and promote their own interests and beliefs as well as deliver a prescribed National Curriculum?

Originally published in 1995, this book explores creative teachers’ attempts to pursue their brand of teaching despite the changes. Peter Woods has discovered a range of strategies and adaptations to this end among such teachers, including resisting change which runs counter to their own values; appropriating the National Curriculum within their own ethos; enhancing their role through the use of others; and enriching their work through the National Curriculum to provide quality learning experiences. If all else fails, such teachers remove themselves from the system and take their creativity elsewhere. A strong theme of self-determination runs through these experiences.

While acknowledging hard realities, the book is ultimately optimistic, and a tribute to the dedication and inspiration of primary teachers.

The book makes an important contribution to educational theory, showing a range of responses to intensification as well as providing many detailed examples of collaborative research methods.

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Peter Woods

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367345595
• ISBN 13: 9780367345594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212