Positive Pedagogy across the Primary Curriculum

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 WorldChapter 2: Positive Pedagogy – Taking Control Of The Teaching And The Learning Environment Through Reclaiming Teachers’ ValuesChapter 3: Planning And Building Positive Environments For LearningChapter 4: Connecting The Humanities - Geography, History, Religious Knowledge, Citizenship And Personal Social, Health And Economic EducationChapter 5: Connecting The Wordless Disciplines - Art And Design, Drama, Music, Dance, And PEChapter 6: Science, Technology, English And Maths In Cross-Curricular ContextsChapter 7: Thinking Carefully About The Whole CurriculumChapter 8: Embodying Positive Pedagogy In A Diverse UK