Enquiring Children, Challenging Teaching: Investigating Science Processes (Enriching the Primary Curriculum--Child, Teacher, Context) - Hardcover

De Boo, Max

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0335200974 ISBN 13: 9780335200979

Publisher: Open Univ Pr

Synopsis

Describes the development of children's enquiry skills, offering a rationale and a theoretical basis for teaching and learning using this approach and showing its relevance to scientific enquiries. De Boo (primary education, U. of Hertfordshire) shows how children's ideas can be supported, challenged, and assessed, and considers how to resource enquiries and expand these within the school and local environment. He also talks about how to promote and integrate problem-solving skills into class teaching, particularly in practical cross-curricular and technological projects. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author

/pas0/Max de Boo has extensive teaching experience, having worked as a pre-school carer, nursery teacher and primary teacher. She currently works as a Lecturer in Primary Education at the University of Hertfordshire. Max is well known as a national speaker on early years education and primary science and is a regular contributor to journals and magazines for teachers. She has published four previous books.

Review

"Max de Boo has produced the kind of book on science whichwill appeal to all practitioners, full of real, helpful examples and supported by illustrations of children's work. It is a very useful addition to any library" - Iram Siraj-Blatchford, University of London

Edition details

• Publisher: Open Univ Pr
• ISBN 10: 0335200974
• ISBN 13: 9780335200979
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176