Virginia Bower is currently a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University and an Associate Lecturer with The Open University.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Purpose of Education: The Purpose of Primary Education Chapter 2: Intimations of Utopia: Values, Sustaining Environments and the Flourishing of Children and Teachers Chapter 3: Reconceptualising Teacher Identity Chapter 4: Fundamental British Values: Are They Fundamental? Chapter 5: What is Effective Pedagogy in the Reception Year? Chapter 6: Exploring how Early Years Settings Might Promote High Quality Communication and Language Opportunities Through Community-Based Projects Chapter 7: Teaching Early Reading: The Phonics Debate Chapter 8: The Arts as Handmaiden Chapter 9: The Place of Foreign Languages in the Primary School Chapter 10: Promoting a Bilingual Approach in the Primary Classroom Chapter 11: Debates in Primary Science Education Chapter 12: Religious Education – What is it Trying to Do? Chapter 13: Geography and History – A Sense of Time and Place Chapter 14: Using Digital Strategies for Primary Learning Chapter 15: The Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics Chapter 16: Debates in the Teaching of Primary Physical Education Chapter 17: Teachers as Readers and Writers Chapter 18: Teaching Poetry Within an Accountability Culture Chapter 19: ‘The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few’: Support for Children with SEND in Times of Austerity Chapter 20: Leading the Way

Virginia Bower is currently a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University and an Associate Lecturer with The Open University.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Purpose of Education: The Purpose of Primary Education Chapter 2: Intimations of Utopia: Values, Sustaining Environments and the Flourishing of Children and Teachers Chapter 3: Reconceptualising Teacher Identity Chapter 4: Fundamental British Values: Are They Fundamental? Chapter 5: What is Effective Pedagogy in the Reception Year? Chapter 6: Exploring how Early Years Settings Might Promote High Quality Communication and Language Opportunities Through Community-Based Projects Chapter 7: Teaching Early Reading: The Phonics Debate Chapter 8: The Arts as Handmaiden Chapter 9: The Place of Foreign Languages in the Primary School Chapter 10: Promoting a Bilingual Approach in the Primary Classroom Chapter 11: Debates in Primary Science Education Chapter 12: Religious Education – What is it Trying to Do? Chapter 13: Geography and History – A Sense of Time and Place Chapter 14: Using Digital Strategies for Primary Learning Chapter 15: The Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics Chapter 16: Debates in the Teaching of Primary Physical Education Chapter 17: Teachers as Readers and Writers Chapter 18: Teaching Poetry Within an Accountability Culture Chapter 19: ‘The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few’: Support for Children with SEND in Times of Austerity Chapter 20: Leading the Way

Virginia Bower is currently a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University and an Associate Lecturer with The Open University.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Purpose of Education: The Purpose of Primary Education Chapter 2: Intimations of Utopia: Values, Sustaining Environments and the Flourishing of Children and Teachers Chapter 3: Reconceptualising Teacher Identity Chapter 4: Fundamental British Values: Are They Fundamental? Chapter 5: What is Effective Pedagogy in the Reception Year? Chapter 6: Exploring how Early Years Settings Might Promote High Quality Communication and Language Opportunities Through Community-Based Projects Chapter 7: Teaching Early Reading: The Phonics Debate Chapter 8: The Arts as Handmaiden Chapter 9: The Place of Foreign Languages in the Primary School Chapter 10: Promoting a Bilingual Approach in the Primary Classroom Chapter 11: Debates in Primary Science Education Chapter 12: Religious Education – What is it Trying to Do? Chapter 13: Geography and History – A Sense of Time and Place Chapter 14: Using Digital Strategies for Primary Learning Chapter 15: The Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics Chapter 16: Debates in the Teaching of Primary Physical Education Chapter 17: Teachers as Readers and Writers Chapter 18: Teaching Poetry Within an Accountability Culture Chapter 19: ‘The Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few’: Support for Children with SEND in Times of Austerity Chapter 20: Leading the Way