Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Foreword by Professor Peter Robinson -- 1 Towards a Pedagogy of Primary Teaching: Vision Impossible -- 2 Teaching in the Primary Classroom: Reform or Revolution? -- 3 Inside the Primary Classroom: Teachers in Perpetual Motion -- 4 Pupils in the Primary Classroom: Loneliness in a Crowded Room -- 5 Plowden Revisited: What Went Wrong? -- 6 Direct Instruction and Factory Models of Teaching -- 7 Progressive Theory and Negotiated Learning -- 8 It's All about Relationships: Turning Teachers into Teddy Bears -- 9 Personal Postscript and the Dilemmas of the Teacher Trainer -- References -- Index