As an integrated primary and acute care system (PACS) vanguard, we’re leading one of the most exciting revolutions in NHS system development: remapping commissioning and provider structures in a way which makes them truly clinically-led and future-proof.
Dismantling organisational boundaries, particularly those between acute and primary care, has led to a shared understanding of clinical and business challenges and enabled us to develop new models of care which accurately reflect current and projected demand.
Rojas-Drummond, S., Albarrab, C.D. and Littleton, K.S. (2008) Thinking Skills and Creativity, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 17–191. Rojas-Drummond et al. ‘Exploratory talk’ (Mercer (2008) research in Mexican primary schools and other kinds of productive talk in more open-ended and creative tasks.
Pupil talk and discussion are seen as having important social and cognitive outcomes. In science classes, pupils' collaborative talk supports the construction of meaning and helps examine the status of evidence, theory and knowledge. However, pupil interactive talk in groups is rare in science lessons. The research reported is part of a project to increase the amount of pupil-pupil talk in primary schools through a programme of teaching and professional development.
In this article, Jewitt reviews research into multimodality and literacy in the classroom, and asks what these changes mean for being literate in contemporary society, where digital media are embedded in everyday literacy practices. Jewitt argues that the time for associating learning primarily with language and print literacy is over.
The National Literacy Trust is a UK charity that changes lives through literacy. We have a vision of a society in which everyone has the reading, writing, speaking and listening skills that they need to fulfil their own and, ultimately, the nation's potential.