Supports students studying primary teaching to develop deep subject knowledge across primary subjects beyond literacy and numeracy.
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.
Part 1: Understanding Subject Knowledge
1. Developing subject knowledge: An introduction - Jen Aggleton
2. Poverty informed primary curriculum - Sean Harris & Joanne Stuart
3. Subject knowledge and the anti-racist curriculum - Karan Vickers-Hulse,
Malcom Richards, Sarah Whitehouse & Jane Carter
4. Subject knowledge and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities - Emma
Jones
5. Effective interactions for subject knowledge development - Simon Ripley
Part 2: Developing Subject Knowledge
6. Art and Design - Teresa Smith
7. Citizenship and Ethics - Rachel Sidoli
8. Dance - Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel & Eilidh Slattery
9. Digital Technologies - Claire Hawkins & Gavin Davenport
10. Drama - Reece Sohdi
11. Geography - Sarah Whitehouse & Emma Thomas
12. Health and Wellbeing - Jane Calcutt
13. History - Helen Crawford, Ailsa Fidler & Rebecca Harris
14. Languages - Elizabeth Malone
15. Music - Phil Griffith
16. Physical Education - Jordan Wintle
17. Religious Education - Lizzie Yeomans
18. Sciences - Matt Borg & Marc Porcel
19. Sustainability and Climate Change - Catherine Foley, Matthew Knight, Jo
Anna Reed Johnson, Philippa Heath & Sarah Marston
Part 3: Taking your subject knowledge further
20. Conclusion: the subject knowledge development cycle - Jen Aggleton
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 Childrens Literature at the University of Cambridge in 2019.
