1st Edition

Child-Centred Education

By Harold Entwistle Copyright 1970
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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.

Biography

Harold Entwistle