Plowden (1967)

Notes on the text

Volume 1

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Preliminary pages (i-xxii)
Foreword, Membership, Contents

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 (1-3)
Introduction

Part 2 The growth of the child
Chapter 2 (7-26)
The children: their growth and development

Part 3 The home, school and neighbourhood
Chapter 3 (29-36)
The children and their environment
Chapter 4 (37-49)
Participation by parents
Chapter 5 (50-68)
Educational Priority Areas
Chapter 6 (69-74)
Children of immigrants
Chapter 7 (75-94)
The health and social services and the school child

Part 4 The structure of primary education
Chapter 8 (97-115)
Primary education in the 1960s: its organisation and effectiveness
Chapter 9 (116-134)
Providing for children before compulsory education
Chapter 10 (135-152)
The ages and stages of primary education
Chapter 11 (153-157)
Selection for secondary education
Chapter 12 (158-166)
Continuity and consistency between the stages of education
Chapter 13 (167-173)
The size of primary schools
Chapter 14 (174-181)
Education in rural areas

Part 5 The children in the schools: curriculum and internal organisation
Chapter 15 (185-188)
The aims of primary education
Chapter 16 (189-202)
Children learning in school
Chapter 17 (203-261)
Aspects of the curriculum
Chapter 18 (262-265)
Aids to learning and to teaching
Chapter 19 (266-272)
The child in the school community
Chapter 20 (273-295)
How primary schools are organised
Chapter 21 (296-304)
Handicapped children in ordinary schools
Chapter 22 (305-308)
The education of gifted children

Part 6 The adults in the schools
Introduction (311-312)
The role of the teacher
Chapter 23 (313-323)
The staffing of schools
Chapter 24 (324-338)
The deployment of staff
Chapter 25 (339-367)
The training of primary school teachers
Chapter 26 (368-376)
The training of nursery assistants and teachers' aides

Part 7 Independent schools
Chapter 27 (379-386)
Independent primary schools

Part 8 Primary school buildings and equipment; status; and research
Chapter 28 (389-409)
Primary school buildings and equipment
Chapter 29 (410-422)
The status and government of primary education
Chapter 30 (423-427)
Research, innovation and the dissemination of information

Part 9 Conclusions and recommendations
Chapter 31 (431-459)
The costs and priorities of our recommendations
Chapter 32 (460-485)
Recommendations and conclusions

Notes (486-495)
Notes of reservation
Annex A (499-503)
A questionnaire to witnesses
Annex B (504-521)
List of witnesses
Annex C (522-536)
Visits made
Glossary (537-541)
Index (545-555)

Volume 2

Research and Surveys

Articles

about Plowden

The Plowden Report (1967)
Children and their Primary Schools

A Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education (England)

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1967
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

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In this Annex we list the names of those who received us so kindly in our own country and abroad and hope that they will take this as further evidence of our gratitude to them.

Schools visited in the United Kingdom:

(i) Schools In England. (Schools are listed according to their local authority areas).

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(ii) Schools in Scotland

(iii) Visits to Colleges of Education, University Departments, University Institutes of Education and other Institutions in England and Scotland

Members of the Council met and conferred with Dr JJ Grant, Director, University of Durham, Institute of Education and Professor B Stanley, Director, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Institute of Education. They
also met and conferred with Professor JD Nisbet, Director, University of Aberdeen, Department of Education.

(iv) Discussions with Members and Officials of Local Education Authorities

In the course of their visits to local authority areas, members of the Council held conferences with members and officials of local education authorities. In this way evidence was received informally from the following authorities: Bradford, Bristol, Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Leicestershire, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Oldham, Oxfordshire, Rochdale, Salford, West Riding and West Sussex.

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DENMARK

FRANCE

Visit to the Municipality of Sarcelles,
Ecoles Maternelles, Primary Schools
and Maison des Jeunes et de la Culture.
Visits to:
L'Ecole Normale d'lnstituteurs, Rue Molitor
L'Ecole Normale d'lnstitutrices, Rue Anizan Cavillon
Centre National d'Education de Plein Air
L'Ecole Departementale d'Asnieres, Seine
Classes de Mi-temps Pedagogiques de Vandes
Centre International d'Etudes Pedagogiques de Sevres
Maison des Enfants, Meudon, Sevres

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POLAND
Discussions at Ministry of Education of the Polish People's Republic with Vice Minister of Education, Mr Ferdynand Herok and others. Discussions at Polish Institute of Pedagogy with Dr Okon and others.

Visits to:

SWEDEN

Conferences with senior officials, Royal Swedish Board of Education, Stockholm.

Meetings with Professor T Husen and other members of Faculty of the Teacher Training University at Stockholm.

Visits in Stockholm area to:

Visits to the County of Vastmanland and the town of Vasteras. The group were received by members and officials of the Provincial Board of Education and by the Vasteras City Authorities.

Visits were made to:

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USSR

Discussions were held at the Ministry of Education for the RSFSR (Mr Ivanov and others): Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (Mr AI Marcoushievich, First Vice-President): State Educational Publishing House (Mr Terekhov): Ministry of Education, Mme MV Tarasova (Head, pre-school directorate).

Visits were paid to:

Moscow

Gorki

Leniniski Gorki School, Lenin Hills

USA

Visits were paid to a large number of schools, universities and colleges throughout the USA. The following visits were made:

New York

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Syracuse, New York

New Haven, Connecticut

Hagerstown, Maryland

Washington

Conference with Mr Francis Keppel, US Commissioner of Education
Visit to National Education Association: Dr Ashby and Mr Childs

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Atlanta

Los Angeles

Santa Monica

Visits to schools and nurseries to see parent education. Mrs Avanot, Parent Education Department.

San Francisco Area

Conference with Dean Quillen, Professors Robert Bush and Dwight Allen, Stanford University School of Education.

Chicago

Conferences with Dean R Campbell and members of faculty

Madison

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Conferences with:

Dr Russell T Gregg, Professor of Educational Administration
Dr Arthur P Miles, Professor of Social Work
Mr Angus Rothwell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Wisconsin.

Visits to:

Conferences with:

Dr Edward Landy, Professor of Education and Assistant Superintendent, Department of Special Education and Pupil Personnel, Newton Public Schools
Dr Edwin E Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics
Dr Joseph Grannis, Assistant Professor of Education
Dr Douglas Porter, Assistant Professor of Education and Research Associate in the University Committee on Programmed Instruction
Dr Charles Brown, Superintendent of Schools, Newton, Mass.
Dr Maurice Belanger, Assistant Professor of Education
Dr David Purpel, Assistant Professor of Education, Director of Secondary School Student Teaching and Acting Director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program
Dr James G Holland, Lecturer of Education, Research Associate in the University Committee on Programmed Instruction and Executive Secretary of the University Committee on Programmed Instruction
Dr Benjamin Nichols, Director Elementary Science Study
Mr Michael Katz and other doctoral students.