1st Edition
Play in the Infants' School An Account of an Educational Experiment at the Raleigh Infants' School, Stepney, London, E.1. January 1933–April 1936
Preface. Foreword by Susan Isaacs. Part I: The Changing School 1. Introduction 2. Equipment 3. Freedom to Move and to Talk Part II: Undirected Activity 4. Play in the Nurseries 5. The Fives at Play 6. The Sixes in 1933 and 1934 7. A Group of Six-and-a-Half to Seven-and-a-Half, 1935 8. The Garden Class at Play 9. The Work of the Teacher Part III: Directed Activities 10. Learning to Talk 11. Learning to Read and Write 12. First Mathematics 13. Community Life 14. Conclusion. Index.
Biography
E. R. (Ella Ruth) Boyce was an author and educator. She helped found and contributed to the magazine Childhood Education in 1924 (still going strong today). She was educated at Pittsburgh Central High School, the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Kindergarten College, the New York Kindergarten Association and Duquesne University, where she received a Doctor of Pedagogy degree.
