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