The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys (Electronic book text)

The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys isathe outcome of the Cambridge Primary ReviewaOCo EnglandOCOs biggest enquiry into primary education for overaforty years. Fully independent of government, it was launched in 2006 to investigate the condition and future of primary education at a time of change and uncertainty and after two decades of almost uninterrupted reform. Ranging over ten broad themes and drawing on a vast array of evidence, the Review publishedathiry-one interim reports, includingatwenty-eight surveys of published research, provoking media headlines and public debate, before presenting its final report and recommendations.

This book brings together the twenty-eight research surveys, specially commissioned fromasixty-five leading academics in the areas under scrutiny and now revised and updated, to create what is probably the most comprehensive overview and evaluation of research in primary education yet published. A particular feature is the prominence given to international and comparative perspectives. With an introduction from Robin Alexander, the ReviewOCOs director, the book is divided into eight sections, covering:

• childrenOCOs lives and voices: school, home and community
• childrenOCOs development, learning, diversity and needits
• aims, values and contexts for primary education
• the structure and content of primary education
• outcomes, standards and assessment in primary education
• teaching in primary schools: structures and processes
• teaching in primary schools: training, development and workforce reform
• policy frameworks: governance, funding, reform and quality assurance.

The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys is an essential reference tool for professionals, researchers, students and policy-makers working in the fields of early years, primary and secondary education. "