1st Edition

Place and Time with Children Five to Nine

By Joan Blyth Copyright 1984
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1984, Place and Time with Children Five to Nine challenges the conventional curriculum in arguing that too much emphasis has been placed on the basics, language, and number skills, to the exclusion of other aspects of the curriculum. While teachers recognise that young children must be introduced to the past, recent and distant, and the environment, near and far, these are... Read more

Part One: Preliminary Thinking 1. Background 2. Approaches to Content: What Place and Time? Part Two: Practice in the Classroom 3. Methods of Approach 4. Resources for Activity Part Three: Assessment and Record-keeping 5. Assessing Place and Time Part Four: Theory into Practice 6. Three Units Taught in Schools

Biography

Joan Blyth