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Gai Lindsay; Sarah Probine; Rachel Denee; Denise Savins – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
Combining theoretical inspiration, practical guidance, and visual examples, this book empowers educators to implement rich visual arts experiences and foster joyful, art-centered learning environments with children. Drawing upon decades of experience and research, the authors offer rich, practical, plain English information alongside inspiring…
Descriptors: Art Education, Visual Arts, Play, Children
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Simon Perris – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2025
This article addresses the application of matauranga Maori (Maori knowledge) to Classical Studies in light of the NCEA Change Programme (and the 2023 coalition government's changes to that programme). I focus on the (now-dormant) first 'Big Idea', which originally proposed that some classical terms or concepts might be optimally explained through…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Pacific Islanders, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences
Rebecca Morris, Editor; Thomas Perry, Editor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This text presents an informative overview of Conservative-led education policy over the last 14 years. The book provides a broad and detailed picture of the developing education landscape in England during this period, highlighting the transformational and sometimes 'radical' reforms that the country has seen. Crucially, the book draws together…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Development, Educational Change
Kirsten Petrie; Marg Cosgriff; Lisette Burrows; Shane Keown; Joel Devcich; Jo Naera; Deirdre Duggan – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
This book encourages primary school practitioners to think differently about the way in which health and physical education (HPE) is delivered in schools. Drawing on evidence from a long-term collaborative practitioner action research project, EveryBody Counts, the book shows that it is possible to challenge the orthodoxy and to reshape practice…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Health Education, Physical Education, Elementary School Teachers
Kerry Freedman – Teachers College Press, 2025
"Teaching Visual Culture" provides the theoretical and practical basis for developing a curriculum that lays the groundwork for art education at all levels (K-12 and higher education) and across school subjects. Drawing on material, social, cognitive, aesthetic, and curricular theories, Freedman offers a framework for teaching the visual…
Descriptors: Art Education, Aesthetics, Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Development
Teresa Cremin, Editor; Helen Hendry, Editor; Anna Harrison, Editor – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025
How do you become an effective primary school teacher? What do you need to be able to do? What do you need to know? Flexible, effective and creative primary school teachers require subject knowledge, an understanding of their pupils and how they learn, a range of strategies for managing behaviour and organising environments for learning, and the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Attitudes