Course of Study in History and Literature, with Suggestions and Directions (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Emily J. Rice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0243262086 ISBN 13 : 9780243262083

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The conviction is steadily gaining ground that education must deal primarily with the relations of the pupil to his environment in nature and to the community life of which he finds himself a part. History and literature explain the social life. They form a necessary means in every grade of schoolwork to the end that the individual may understand his place in the home, the school and the larger social organism. The demand for work in these subjects in the lower gradi s, as well as in the higher ones, makes it necessary that teachers should adjust themselves to new conditions. To select material suitable for each stage of experience, and adapt that material to present needs, to make the work of the pupils grow out of their immediate interests, is possible only by a careful study both of child life and of the resources furnished by the treasures of the past. The basis of the work must be the strongest interests of the individual at each period of his life. The social life that the little children understand is that of the home. For the earliest lessons, shelter, food and clothing seem to be the best topics. Gradually, the circle of experience widens, taking in the immediate neighborhood, with the occupations of the people and their ideas. The industries and inventions in farming, trade, and commerce are then important subjects. In the highest grades, political institutions begin to attract attention the idea of country and the interests of the world in general. Present conditions our own time, our own country must always be the starting point, and the past furnishes contrast and camparison. The aim of this book is to help teachers to meet the new demand that history and literature become a vital part of our courses of study, from the lowest primary to the High School not an addition to reading and writing for occasional variety, but a necessary basis for readi
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0243262086
• ISBN 13: 9780243262083
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 195
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