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1. Education 3–13

   40 Years of Research on Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education

   Edited by Mark Brundrett, Michael Bottery, PETER SILCOCK, Rosemary Webb, Neil Burton, Diane Duncan, Wei Zhang

   Series: Education Heritage

   Primary education is one of the most important phases of learning but there remains a scarcity of in-depth research on this vital topic. However, as the focus on improving outcomes increases there is a growing interest internationally in research that helps us to understand the best ways to help...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Achieving Competence, Success and Excellence in Teaching

   By Mark Brundrett, Peter Silcock

   Measuring the ability to teach is central to government policies to raise standards in schools. 'Successful teaching' is now measured through basic technical and personal skills in the context of the National Curriculum. Teachers are labelled successes or failures based on graded OFSTED...

   Published January 16th 2002 by Routledge
3. New Progressivism

   By Peter Silcock

   Many useful things that progressivism has to offer (child-centred approaches, flexibility of response, negotiated and democratic classroom organisation) have been swept aside in the march of traditionalist policy. Taking robust theories of developmental psychology derived from the work of Swiss...

   Published April 21st 1999 by Routledge