Originally published in 1989, this book reviews teaching methods and curriculum practice against the reality of classroom practice and educational objective and policies. In some ways a re-appraisal of progressive individual and group teaching and learning methods, together with practical guidelines for teachers.

Galton, Maurice

1. Towards a Pedagogy of Primary Teaching: Vision Impossible. 2. Teaching in the Primary Classroom: Reform or Revolution? 3. Inside the Primary Classroom: Teachers in Perpetual Motion. 4. Pupils in the Primary Classroom: Loneliness in a Crowded Room. 5. Plowden Revisited: What Went Wrong? 6. Direct Instruction and Factory Model of Teaching. 7. Progressive Theory and Negotiated Learning. 8. It?EUR?s all about Relationships: Turning Teachers into Teddy Bears. 9. Personal Postscript and Dilemmas of the Teacher Trainer.