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Developing Primary Subject Knowledge
Beyond Literacy and Numeracy

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May 2026 | 420 pages | Learning Matters
Supporting primary teaching students to develop deep subject knowledge in curriculum subjects beyond literacy and numeracy.

Undergraduate students on primary teaching courses have a significant breadth of subject knowledge to cover.   Alongside a focus on literacy and numeracy, students must develop subject knowledge across the curriculum. This book:

*Offers both breadth and depth for deep subject knowledge learning. 
*Includes both subject knowledge theory and content.  
*Brings focused subject exploration from subject experts in explicit subject chapters.
*Enables students to build critical evaluation skills.
*Considers how diversity, equity and inclusion can be woven into the curriculum.
*Explores how curricular are developed, interpreted, and delivered

 
Part 1: Understanding Subject Knowledge
 
1. Introduction to Subject Knowledge in primary curricula
 
2. Generating, developing, and transforming subject knowledge through dialogue
 
3. Subject knowledge and the decolonised curriculum
 
4. Developing your subject knowledge
 
Part 2: Developing Subject Knowledge
 
5. Art & Design
 
6. Citizenship and Ethics
 
7. Geography
 
8. Health and Wellbeing
 
9. History
 
10. Languages
 
11. Performing Arts
 
12. Religious Education
 
13. Sciences
 
14. Technologies
 
15. Social Studies
 
16. Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
 
17. Sustainability and Climate Change
 
18. Technologies
 
Part 3: Taking your subject knowledge further
 
19. Generating new knowledge and supporting others: research and leadership for subject knowledge
 
20. Conclusion: the subject knowledge development cycle

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Hardcover
ISBN: 9781036230937
$183.00

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ISBN: 9781036230920
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