Jonathan Barnes 
Cross-Curricular Learning 3-14 

This third edition explores the key practical and theoretical issues underpinning cross-curricular teaching and learning across the early years, primary education and lower secondary school. Combining findings from research and educational theory with examples of thought-provoking teaching in schools, this textbook discusses how high quality teaching across different curriculum areas can be planned, taught, assessed and used to encourage creative and deep learning experiences.

Revised and updated to reflect current curriculum policy and contemporary research, this third edition includes:

·         Coverage of the 2014 National Curriculum in England and the implications for cross-curricular practice

·         More case studies from across the curriculum, from different age groups and exploring different aspects of teaching

·         Improved coverage of cross-curricular practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Table of Content

What Should Schooling in the Twenty-first Century Look Like?

Cross-Curricular Policy and Practice

What Does Good Cross-Curricular Practice Look Like?

Social Perspectives on Learning

What Does Neuroscience Tell Us About Cross-Curricular Learning?

Psychology and Cross-Curricular Learning

The Pedagogy of Cross-Curricular Learning

What Values Should We Apply?

What Themes Are Suitable for Cross-Curricular Learning?

How Can We Assess Cross-Curricular and Creative Learning?

How Should We Plan for Cross-Curricular Activity?

Key Issues for Debate

About the author

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.