Understanding Teaching and Learning in Primary Education

Dr Mike Carroll is a retired Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Glasgow. Mike was formerly the Director of the MEd Professional Learning and Enquiry. Mike contributed to a range of masters-level programmes for serving teachers, with a particular interest in the development of leadership at all levels in the school. As a retired member of staff Mike continues to contribute as an Associate Tutor involved in supporting students on school placements as well as working as an Education Consultant contributing to Teacher Induction Programmes. Mike co-edited the successful Understanding Teaching and Learning in Primary Education text published by SAGE. Margaret McCulloch is a lecturer in the School of Education, University of Glasgow. She worked for many years as a primary teacher, specialising in Support for Learning, before becoming an Inclusion Development Officer, and she has extensive experience of working collaboratively with parents, teachers and colleagues from other professions. She teaches educational studies, with a particular focus on inclusive education and related issues, on a number of undergraduate programmes. She also works with international students and practising teachers from Scotland on the Masters programme in Inclusive Education: Policy, Practice and Research. Her research interests include professional identity in teacher education, inclusive education and dyslexia. She has written on inter-professional approaches to practice (Forde et al., 2011); she contributed to the Literature Review on Teacher Education in the 21st Century (Scottish Government, 2010) and to the Assessment at Transition report (Scottish Government, 2012).

′Understanding Teaching and Learning in Primary Education covers all the key issues for beginning or developing teachers. The writing style is clear and accessible with ‘Thinking points’ providing opportunities for reflection. The inclusion of links to relevant theory allow the reader to explore areas of interest in greater depth.′

• Chapter 1: The context for primary education in the twenty-first century - Mike Carroll and Margaret McCullochChapter 2: Childhood and diversity - Julie McAdam and Jennifer FarrarChapter 3: Early years′ education - Mary WingraveChapter 4: Models of teaching and learning - Mike CarrollChapter 5: Planning for learning and teaching in the primary classroom - Maureen Farrell and A. Graeme PateChapter 6: Social and emotional contexts for learning - Margaret McCullochChapter 7: Identity, relationships and behaviour - George HeadChapter 8: The evolving concept of inclusive education - Margaret McCulloch and Margaret SutherlandChapter 9: Collaborative learning - Mike CarrollChapter 10: Integrated learning - Mike Carroll and Fiona McGregorChapter 11: Creating Challenge in the classroom - Margaret Sutherland and Niamh StackChapter 12: Assessment for Learning - Louise Hayward and Ernest SpencerChapter 13: Education for citizenship, global citizenship and learning for sustainability - Alan Britton, Liz Moorse and Mary YoungChapter 14: Spiritual Devolpment - Leonardo Franchi and Leon RobinsonChapter 15: Teaching for creativity and creative teaching - Moyra Boland, Margaret Jago and Jan MacdonaldChapter 16: Digital learning - Stephen Boyle and David McKinstryChapter 17: Transitions - George MacBride and Margaret McCullochChapter 18: Working with other audults - Mike CarrollChapter 19: How teachers learn: the role of research in teaching - Beth Dickson and Irene McQueenChapter 20: Teacher leadership and learning: the evolving role of the primary teacher - Christine Forde and Margery McMahon