Child-Centred Education

ISBN-13: 9780415753456 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Harold Entwistle

Opis

This volume is a critical study of one of today’s most controversial topics in educational theory, setting the many arguments in perspective and clarifying the issues that arise when attention is focused on the learner. The author examines the problems of individual education, the distinctive demands childhood makes on the school and the claims of social education.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction: Child-Centred Education 2 The Individual Child. 3 The Child and Society 4 The Free Child 5 The Educated Child 6 The Child and the Curriculum 7 Education for Life 8 The Child as Agent of His Own Education 9 The Teacher as Agent of Child-Centred Education 10 Teacher Training and Child-Education 11 Child-Centred Education in Theory and Practice 12 Conclusion: Learner-Centred Education Appendix a Note on Whitehead’s Principle of Rhythm in Education Index.

O autorze

Harold Entwistle