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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1036230937 ISBN 13: 9781036230937

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1036230937
• ISBN 13: 9781036230937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Aggleton Jen