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Curriculum and pedagogy in Key Stage 2: a survey of policy and practice in small rural primary schools
Author(s) -
Richards Colin
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the curriculum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1469-3704
pISSN - 0958-5176
DOI - 10.1080/0958517970090305
Subject(s) - curriculum , national curriculum , pedagogy , quality (philosophy) , key (lock) , political science , medical education , sociology , medicine , computer science , computer security , philosophy , epistemology
Small primary schools have often been criticized for their staff's inevitably limited curricular expertise and consequent difficulty in providing a full National Curriculum for their pupils. Yet in terms of standards of attainment and quality of teaching such schools are rated rather more favourably than larger ones in OFSTED inspections. Based on an investigation of policy and practice in thirteen small primary schools this article attempts to examine the reality of small schools’ planning and implementation of National Curriculum requirements at Key Stage 2 and suggests possible reasons for their ‘better’ performance, at least as judged by OFSTED inspectors.