Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsSeries 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
