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Developing Subject Knowledge Across the Primary Curriculum
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Developing Subject Knowledge Across the Primary Curriculum

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April 2026 | 416 pages | Learning Matters
Supporting primary teaching students to develop deep subject knowledge in curriculum subjects beyond literacy and numeracy.

Students on primary education courses have a significant breadth of subject knowledge to cover. This book, which is applicable to a range of curricula, including those of the four UK nations:

*Offers both breadth and depth for deep subject knowledge learning.
*Includes information on subject knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and the links between them.
*Brings focused subject explorations from a diverse range of subject experts in explicit subject chapters.
*Enables students to build critical evaluation skills and consider implications for practice.
*Supports professional decision making about what and how to teach.
*Considers how both curriculum and pedagogy can be approached in inclusive and equitable ways.
*Explores how curricular are developed, interpreted, and delivered.
 
Part 1: Understanding Subject Knowledge
Jen Aggleton
1. Developing subject knowledge: An introduction
Sean Harris & Joanne Stuart
2. Poverty informed primary curriculum
Karan Vickers-Hulse, Malcom Richards, Sarah Whitehouse & Jane Carter
3. Subject knowledge and the anti-racist curriculum
Emma Jones
4. Subject knowledge and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
Simon Ripley
5. Effective interactions for subject knowledge development
 
Part 2: Developing Subject Knowledge
Teresa Smith
6. Art and Design
Rachel Sidoli
7. Citizenship and Ethics
Katherina Farrugia-Kriel & Eilidh Slattery
8. Dance
Claire Hawkins & Gavin Davenport
9. Digital Technologies
Reece Sohdi
10. Drama
Sarah Whitehouse & Emma Thomas
11. Geography
Jane Calcutt
12. Health and Wellbeing
Helen Crawford, Ailsa Fidler & Rebecca Harris
13. History
Elizabeth Malone
14. Languages
Phil Griffith
15. Music
Jordan Wintle
16. Physical Education
Lizzie Yeomans
17. Religious Education
Matt Borg & Marc Porcel
18. Sciences
Catherine Foley, Matthew Knight, Jo Anna Reed Johnson, Philippa Heath & Sarah Marston
19. Sustainability and Climate Change
 
Part 3: Taking your subject knowledge further
Jen Aggleton
20. Conclusion: the subject knowledge development cycle

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