A University's Challenge

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Edition:

1st Edition

Author:

Peter Gronn, James Biddulph

Published:

September 2016

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Available

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ISBN:

9781316612170

A collaborative series with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education highlighting leading-edge research across Teacher Education, International Education Reform and Language Education.

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Overview

A University's Challenge: Cambridge's Primary School for the Nation records the establishment of the University of Cambridge Primary School (UCPS). The UCPS is the centrepiece of Cambridge University’s new project, the North West Cambridge Development. A number of aspects of the school are discussed by those senior colleagues in the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Faculty of Education who during 2011-15, played an important part in the conception, design, negotiation and implementation of this unique venture in English primary schooling. The UCPS is nationally distinctive, because it is the sole university training school (UTS) established by the previous UK Coalition government (2010-15). It is also unique internationally, because of its three-fold functions: its simultaneous provision of primary schooling, initial teacher education (ITE) placements and a research facility that is intended to drive forward a national research agenda and a set of evidence-based outcomes that are in turn intended to re-shape English primary schooling.

Features

This book documents the establishment of a unique and pioneering venture in English primary education: the University of Cambridge Primary School (UCPS)―a school linked to a high globally-ranked research-intensive university.
The UCPS will offer primary education, initial teacher education (ITE) placements and, through its research facility, will generate evidence-informed research outcomes to be offered as part of teachers’ professional learning. As the first school of its kind, the book documents a ground-breaking innovation in primary schooling.
Under UK legislation, the UCPS is established as a free school. With this theme in mind, the book is the first of its kind to provide a unique and full-length case study of the evolution of a free school, from its conception and design, through to its construction and the implementation of its programme.
Although free schools are not required to adopt the National Curriculum (NC), the UCPS is offering the NC, which it will be building on and extend in its approach to curriculum and pedagogy.

Series Editors' Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Cambridge's Global Mission: A Primary School at the Heart
Chapter 2 - Becoming a Free School
Chapter 3 - The Potential Influence of the University of Cambridge Primary School in the English School-led, Self-improving System
Chapter 4 - Creating a Space for Irresistible Learning
Chapter 5 - Releasing the Imagination: Celebrating the Art of the Possible
Chapter 6 - Ensuring Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the Early Years of Primary Schooling
Chapter 7 - Teacher Education and University Training Schools: What Lessons Can be Learned from Finland?
Chapter 8 - The Possibility of Evidence-informed Primary Schooling
Chapter 9 - The Distinctive Research Contribution of a University Training School: Ideas from the Cambridge Faculty
Chapter 10 - Research and a Standards-based Primary Teaching Profession
Chapter 11 - The View from Birmingham
Chapter 12 - The Idea of a University Training School Revisited
Index