Developing Subject Knowledge Across the Primary Curriculum: Beyond Literacy and Numeracy (Primary Teaching Now) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1036230929 ISBN 13: 9781036230920

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2026

Synopsis

Supporting primary teaching students to develop deep subject knowledge in curriculum subjects beyond literacy and numeracy.

Students on primary education courses have a significant breadth of subject knowledge to cover. This book, which is applicable to a range of curricula, including those of the four UK nations:

*Offers both breadth and depth for deep subject knowledge learning.
*Includes information on subject knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and the links between them.
*Brings focused subject explorations from a diverse range of subject experts in explicit subject chapters.
*Enables students to build critical evaluation skills and consider implications for practice.
*Supports professional decision making about what and how to teach.
*Considers how both curriculum and pedagogy can be approached in inclusive and equitable ways.
*Explores how curricular are developed, interpreted, and delivered.

About this title

About the Author

Jen Aggleton is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the Open University. Jen is a former primary school teacher and qualified librarian, with an academic background in knowledge and information studies. She completed her ESRC-funded PhD in Education and Children’s Literature at the University of Cambridge in 2019.

From the Back Cover

Supports students studying primary teaching to develop deep subject knowledge across primary subjects beyond literacy and numeracy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1036230929
• ISBN 13: 9781036230920
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Aggleton Jen