ROBIN ALEXANDER
About
Biographical details
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The Cambridge Primary Review
Research and evaluation
Dialogic teaching
Publications
Publication downloads and links
Publication downloads and links
Selected articles and reports in .pdf
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Children their World, their Education: final report of the Cambridge Primary Review (Routledge 2009) | Order from: http://www.routledge.com/9780415548717 |
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The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys (Routledge 2009) | Order from: http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Cambridge-Primary-Review-Research-Surveys-isbn9780415548694 |
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Essays on Pedagogy (Routledge 2008) | Download information and order form |
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Education for All, the Quality Imperative and the Problem of Pedagogy (Create 2008) |
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Towards
Dialogic Teaching (Dialogos, 2008) |
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Education as Dialogue (Hong Kong Institute of Education / Dialogos 2006) | Download information and order form |
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The Education of Six Year Olds in
England, Denmark and Finland: an international comparative study
(Ofsted, 2003) |
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Culture and
Pedagogy (Blackwell, 2001) |
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Reflections
on Equity, Quality and Local Planning in the District Primary Education
Programme (European Commission, 2001) |
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Learning from Comparing Volume 2 (Symposium Books, 2000) | Order from Symposium Books (and read Table of Contents and Introduction) |
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Learning from Comparing Volume 1 (Symposium Books, 1999) | Order from Symposium Books (and read Table of Contents and Introduction) |
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Time for
Change: curriculum managers at work (CREPE, University of Warwick, 1998) |
Order from m.a.handy@warwick.ac.uk, or by post from Finance Office, Warwick Institute of Education, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK |
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Policy and Practice in Primary Education: local initiative, national agenda (Routledge, 1997) |
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Other Primary Schools and Ours: hazards of international comparison (CREPE, University of Warwick, 1997) | Order from m.a.handy@warwick.ac.uk, or by post from Finance Office, Warwick Institute of Education, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK |
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Versions of Primary Education (Routledge, 1995) |
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Innocence and Experience: reconstructing primary education (Trentham Books, 1994) | Order from Trentham Books or by post from Trentham Books, Westview House, 734 London Road, Oakhill, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 5NP, UK |
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Curriculum
Organisation and Classroom Practice in Primary Schools (DES, 1992) |
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Policy and Practice in Primary Education (Routledge, 1992) | Superseded by revised and expanded second edition, 1997 (see above) |
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Changing
Primary Practice (Falmer, 1989) |
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Primary Teaching (Cassell, 1984; revised reprint, 1988) |
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Change in
Teacher Education (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984) |
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The Self-Evaluating Institution (Methuen, 1982) | Out of print Order from Amazon |
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Advanced Study for Teachers (SRHE 1981) |
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Developments in PGCE Courses (SRHE 1980) | Out of print |
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Professional Studies for Teaching (SRHE 1979) | Out of print |
Selected articles and reports in .pdf
Post-election priorities from the Cambridge Primary Review (2010)
Ministers fail to learn lessons (2009)
Tough on standards, tough on tests (2009)
Introducing the Cambridge Primary Review (2009)
Towards a New Primary Curriculum, Part 1 (2009)
Towards a New Primary Curriculum, Part 2 (2009)
Argumentation and dialogic teaching: alternative pedagogies for a changing world (2008)
'Where there is no vision ...' (2007)
'Culture, dialogue and learning: notes on an emerging pedagogy' (2005)
‘The primary curriculum: an overdue case for reform’ (2005)
Teaching through Dialogue: the first year (2005)
‘Excellence, enjoyment and personalised learning: a true foundation for choice?’ (2004)
‘Still no pedagogy? Principle, pragmatism and compliance in primary education’ (2004)
Talk for Learning: the second year (2004)
‘Pédagogie, culture et comparaison: visions et versions de l’école élémentaire’
Talk for Learning: the first year (2003)
[in Finnish: Kuusivuotiaiden opetus Englannissa, Tanskassa ja Suomessa: kainsainvälinen vertaileva tutkimus (2003)]
[in Danish: Undervisning af Seksårige in England, Danmark og Finland: en international komparative undersøgelse (2003)]
‘The curriculum in Successful Primary Schools: a commissioned response’ (2002)
‘Basics, cores and choices: prospects for curriculum reform’ (2001)