Child-Centred Education

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8404348
AutoresM Brearley, Harold Entwistle
Año1971
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas110
Fecha de publicación1971-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBritish Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3120687
OpenAlexW1966245599
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

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. The related questions of freedom, authority and discipline are then discussed, together with the ways in which curriculum development must take account of the learner’s interests, needs and dispositions in preparing him/her for life. The concept of educating the whole person is critically examined, together with the claim that education for life and the development of personal integrity require an integrated curriculum. Since child-centred educational theory is often dismissed as irrelevant to practice, the book concludes with an assessment of the various limitations which concern with practical activity imposes on educational theorists

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