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Child-Centred Education: Reviving the Creative Tradition

Child-Centred Education: Reviving the Creative Tradition

Doddington, Christine
Hilton, Mary

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 1412945879
ISBN13: 9781412945875
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: Oct 17 2007
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.97 Depth: 9.52
Language: English
Tracing the concept of child-centered education back to the Enlightenment, the authors provide a fascinating, and informative history of educational theory and practice...The book is brief, accessible, and inspiring.
--CHOICE

Against an increasingly authoritarian background of testing and instruction, concern is growing about disengagement and loss of depth and quality in education at all levels. Child Centred Education seeks to explore the role of elementary education within this debate.

This book inspires teachers seeking to make their practice more genuinely educational. Authors Christine Doddington and Mary Hilton capture the current opinion that elementary schools can begin to reclaim some of their autonomy, be innovative, and become more creative. Based on wide ranging research, the book sets out to revive the creative alternative to the rigid and impoverished learning experienced by too many elementary school children. The authors trace the origins and history of the child-centered tradition; set out its fundamental beliefs and values; and explore its place in education today.

This book is for teachers, school districts, undergraduate and graduate teacher education, and professional development courses.

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