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Journal Keywords: primary education

The rise and fall of creativity in English education

Ashley Compton

Creativity is currently a popular, but ill-defined, word in English primary education. The concept of creativity has been a recurring feature of government reports, education acts and advice to teachers but the history of creativity is cycles of promotion followed...

Reconciling subjects and contexts: the case for a pragmatic primary curriculum

John Smith

In this paper the author examines changes in the primary curriculum in this country since the time of the Plowden Report of 1967. Since that time there have been several changes of emphasis from teaching through subjects to teaching through...