A book for primary teachers and those training to teach in primary schools on how to develop positive socially-aware teaching that offers deep learning across different curriculum subjects.
Jonathan is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University and a National Teaching Fellow. He has taught and researched for the last 50 years throughout Asia and Africa and in primary, secondary schools and prisons in England. He was a primary head teacher between 1992 and 2000. Since then he has combined work in primary Initial Teacher Education with continuing research and teaching in the arts and humanities in primary and nursery education. His books and published research on Cross-Curricular Learning, teachers' values and diversity are widely used throughout teacher education. In 2017 with peace activist Alex Ntung Jonathan founded Education4diversity, a charity dedicated to humanising, valuing and celebrating diversity through dialogue and education.
Chapter 1: Positive Values In A Rapidly Changing And Diverse World
Chapter 2: Positive Pedagogy - Taking Control Of The Teaching And The Learning Environment Through Reclaiming Teachers' Values
Chapter 3: Planning And Building Positive Environments For Learning
Chapter 4: Connecting The Humanities - Geography, History, Religious Knowledge, Citizenship And Personal Social, Health And Economic Education
Chapter 5: Connecting The Wordless Disciplines - Art And Design, Drama, Music, Dance, And PE
Chapter 6: Science, Technology, English And Maths In Cross-Curricular Contexts
Chapter 7: Thinking Carefully About The Whole Curriculum
Chapter 8: Embodying Positive Pedagogy In A Diverse UK