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"The Child and the Curriculum" is a very insightful essay by John Dewey that displays a unique approach to the Child and the Curriculum.
John Dewey understood that a child's development and learning styles had nothing to do with being rational or orderly, but that the child must learn in their current state of mind which is very different from an adult.
This 1902 essay shows how children integrate educational experiences into a continuum of knowledge.
This book explains the "how" and the "why" behind the importance of a curriculum that leaves room to explore, connect information, and for a child to experience the world around them through learning.
Learn how to honor the individual, and watch as the student and the subject matter come together in a beautiful process that will produce a mature adult.
John Dewey: 1859-1952, Educator and Philosopher.
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"We are apt to look at the school from an individualistic standpoint, as something between teacher and pupil, or between teacher and parent. That which interests us most is naturally the progress made by the individual child of our acquaintance, his normal physical development, his advance in ability to read, write, and figure, his growth in the knowledge of geography and history, improvement in manners, habits of promptness, order, and industry-it is from such standards as these that we judge the work of the school."
John Dewey (1859-1952) was a philosopher, educational reformer, and a psychologist. The School and Society was Dewey's first published book of length on education, and it paved the foundation for his later works on this same topic.
Dewey's works are a valuable source of information and anyone interested in learning more about education and child development.
