The Infant School (Classic Reprint): Its Principles and Methods - Couverture souple

Gunn, John Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333676298 ISBN 13 : 9781333676292

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Practical principles for shaping early classrooms around daily life

This handbook offers a clear approach to early education, focusing on everyday surroundings as the heart of learning.

It emphasizes using familiar objects and scenes from home, school, and the outside world to build curiosity, understanding, and meaningful connections between subjects.

Readers will find structured guidance on planning lessons as part of cohesive series, aligning talking, drawing, reading, and number work around central themes like the seasons and daily life. The approach centers on children’s natural interests, active exploration, and the idea that knowledge grows through well-connected experiences rather than isolated topics.

• How to use the nearest objects and everyday events to spark learning and memory
• Strategies for linking lessons across speaking, drawing, writing, and arithmetic
• Ways to design a sequence of related activities around a central theme
• Guidance on tailoring activities to young children’s stages and environments

Ideal for educators and administrators seeking a practical, age-appropriate framework for infant schools and early classrooms.

A concise, classroom-ready resource grounded in real-world practice for shaping joyful, purposeful early education around daily life.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

That there is need for a book dealing with the special problems of the Infant School, the writer is strongly convinced. There are two reasons which seem to require that an attempt should be made to deal with these problems at present. In the first place, the Infant School is dealt with in too summary a fashion in most books on School Method, and the importance of its work is by no means adequately represented. In the second place, the general plan on which most School Management text-books are based, that of the Curriculum or subjects of study, is not a plan suited to a discussion of Infant School Management. In the Infant School the central fact for the teacher is not the Curriculum but the Pupil. This, of course, is true of all schools, but its truth is most evident at the initial stages of education. Hence in this book an attempt has been made to discuss education from the central standpoint the child to be educated. The writer is convinced that this is the only scientific basis for education, and that from this basis must be deduced alike the curriculum and the method A part from this basis, education becomes merely an empirical system of rules and traditions. To assume this position is to affirm the necessity for a thorough knowledge of children and the laws of their growth, physical, intellectual, and moral. This is a new demand in education, and no text-book yet in existence can supply the knowledge required.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333676298
• ISBN 13: 9781333676292
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 420
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