PGP4110 A critical analysis of a contemporary issue within Primary Education

An analysis of the issue

• Why is this important within Primary Education?
• Has this issue changed over time, how?
• Examine and critically analyse different perspectives.
• What is the impact on pupil learning?
• How would you manage this issue in your classroom and why?

Professional practice evidence

Evidence from lessons that you have observed, and conversations about practice that you have with colleagues (including school-based tutors)

Evidence from your own teaching

Evidence of your professional reflections

Include theory evidence relating to how children learn and develop.

Include research evidence

Harvard Referencing Style Guide

The purpose of this guide is to provide a brief introduction to referencing in the British Standard Harvard style used at Edge Hill University. This guide is based on the British Standard ISO 690:2010 Information and documentation and the layout of this guide has been informed by Harvard style conventions currently being followed in UK Universities.

Unless your department or tutor has advised otherwise, you should follow the advice provided in this guide.

What is referencing?

Referencing is the way that you acknowledge your use of other people’s work or ideas. Whenever you summarise, refer to, or quote from an author’s work, you must acknowledge (cite) your information source.

What is a reference?

There are two parts to a reference:

• A citation goes in the main text of your work and acts as a flag to indicate that you are using someone else’s ideas.
• A reference gives the full details of where the information came from. This goes in an alphabetical list at the end of your work.

General guidance

• You need to reference every time you use, or refer to, another person’s work within your own.
• Check your module handbook or speak to your tutor to check you are using the right style.
• Make use of online style guides and toolkits available.
• Keep a record of all your sources – this will make writing them all up much easier.
• It is important that your referencing is consistent.

Alphabetical order

A bibliography/reference list should be presented in alphabetical order, with the author’s family name preceding the author’s initials.

Layout and formatting

Information should be taken from the cited source. You should follow the format/layout on the document or information source, this includes things like spelling and capitalisation.

Incomplete references – no author / anonymous

If you cannot identify an author, corporate author, organisation, or the item does not appear to have an author, use Anon. However, in most cases, it is important that you identify the source of any evidence you include in your work. Therefore, you may wish to consult your tutor about using references that cannot be verified.

Incomplete references – no date

If you want to cite a source of information but are unable to identify a date, you may replace the year with the letters n.d. which simply means no date.