A University's Challenge
Cambridge's Primary School for the Nation

A collaborative series with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education highlighting leading-edge research across Teacher Education, International Education Reform and Language Education.

Peter Gronn (Edited by), James Biddulph (Edited by)

9781316612170, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 September 2016

248 pages
24.4 x 17 x 1.3 cm, 0.43 kg

This book records the establishment of the University of Cambridge Primary School (UCPS), from the perspective of senior colleagues in the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Faculty of Education who played an important part in the conception and implementation of the UCPS. The UCPS is nationally distinctive, because it is the sole university training school established by the previous UK Coalition government (2010-15) and unique internationally, because of its simultaneous provision of primary schooling, initial teacher education placements and a research facility that is intended to drive forward a national research agenda and a set of evidence-based outcomes.

Series Editors' Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Cambridge's Global Mission: A Primary School at the Heart
Chapter 2 - Becoming a Free School
Chapter 3 - The Potential Influence of the University of Cambridge Primary School in the English School-led, Self-improving System
Chapter 4 - Creating a Space for Irresistible Learning
Chapter 5 - Releasing the Imagination: Celebrating the Art of the Possible
Chapter 6 - Ensuring Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the Early Years of Primary Schooling
Chapter 7 - Teacher Education and University Training Schools: What Lessons Can be Learned from Finland?
Chapter 8 - The Possibility of Evidence-informed Primary Schooling
Chapter 9 - The Distinctive Research Contribution of a University Training School: Ideas from the Cambridge Faculty
Chapter 10 - Research and a Standards-based Primary Teaching Profession
Chapter 11 - The View from Birmingham
Chapter 12 - The Idea of a University Training School Revisited
Index

Subject Areas: Educational: Citizenship & social education [YQN], Educational material [YQ], Teaching skills & techniques [JNT]