Develop and apply a coherent vision for 21st century primary education; enact CPR aims through curriculum, pedagogy and the wider life of the school.
What works and what matters: education in spite of policy. Keynote at CPRT’s national conference – Primary Education: what is and what might be. London, 18 November 2016.
Research
Research Review – Sustainability and Global Understanding, Dr Douglas Bourn, Dr Frances Hunt and Dr Nicole Blum
Research Review – Digital Futures, Professor Cathy Burnett
CPRT publications
Burnett, C. (2016) The Digital Age and its Implications for Learning and Teaching in the Primary School. York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust.
Responses to government and parliamentary consultations
What is Education for? Submission to House of Commons Education Committee Inquiry into the Purpose and Quality of Education in England. 25th January 2016
Blogs
Robin Alexander, Politics at its worst and best, 23rd June 2016
Vanessa Young and Jonathan Barnes, We’re all global citizens now, 17th June 2016
Ben Ballin, Learning Global, 29th April 2016
Sally Elton-Chalcraft, Valuing values?, 11th March 2016
Robin Alexander, An ideological step too far, 19th February 2016
Teresa Cremin, Reading: re-asserting the potency of the personal, 12th February 2016
Sandra Mitchell, Marvellous teachers, February 5th 2016
Mel Ainscow, Learning from difference, January 29th 2016
Sadie Phillips, Reflections from an NQT: surviving or thriving?, January 8th 2016
Robin Alexander, What’s the point?, December 18th 2015
David Whitebread, Crisis in childhood: the loss of play, November 16th 2015
Ben Ballin, From pessimism to hope: global learning and sustainability, November 6th 2015
Rachel Snape, Musings from The Wild Wood, July 10th 2015
Robin Alexander, Teaching to the text: England and Singapore, March 20th 2015
Iain Erskine, Planning, teaching, assessing: journey to coherence, February 13th 2015
Robin Alexander, True grit, January 30th 2015
Jo Evans, Living the CPRT ideal, January 21st 2015
Robin Alexander, 2015: teach local, learn global, January 9th 2015
Robin Alexander, 2015 election countdown: what do we want for primary education?, September 25th 2015
Robin Alexander, The parts the National Curriculum doesn’t reach, August 12th 2015
CPR publications
Alexander, R.J. et al (2010) Children, their World, their Education: Final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review, London: Routledge, chapters 3, 10, 12 and 24.
Alexander, R.J. and Hargreaves, L. (2007) Community Soundings: The Primary Review regional witness sessions, Cambridge: University of Cambridge.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Lowe, J. (2010), ‘Aims for primary education: changing global contexts’, in R.J. Alexander et al (eds) (2010) The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys, London: Routledge, 261-81. Interim report summary (2008)
Conroy, J., Hulme, M. and Menter, I. (2010), ‘Primary curriculum futures’, in The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys, 415, 30. Interim report summary (2008)
Machin, S. and McNally, S. (2010), ‘Aims for primary education: the changing national context’, in The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys, 247-60. Interim report summary (2008)
Shuayb, M. and O’Donnell, S. (2010), ‘Aims and values in primary education: England and other countries’, in The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys, 306-40. Interim report summary (2008)
White, J. (2010), ‘Aims as policy in English primary education’, in The Cambridge Primary Review Research Surveys, 282-305. Interim report summary (2008)