Creative Teachers in Primary Schools

Peter Woods

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781000627473
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Pedagogía
• Subtopic: Educación general

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: Adapting to intensification
• 2 Resisting through collaboration: A whole-school perspective on the National Curriculum
• 3 The creative use and defence of space: Appropriation through the environment
• 4 The charisma of the critical other: Enhancing the role of the teacher
• 5 Teaching, and researching the teaching of, a history topic: An experiment in collaboration
• 6 Managing marginality: Aspects of the career of a primary school head
• 7 Self-determination among primary school teachers
• References
• Name index
• Subject index