Author Description

This Volume Provides A Rigorous Examination Of Theoretical Concepts Such As Need, Interest, Growth, Play, Experience, Activity And Self-expression. It Also Makes An Important Contribution Towards Getting A Closely Argued Educational Theory. In The First Part Of The Book The Author Establishes General Aims And Ends With Suggestions As To What The Curriculum Ought To Be. The Second Part Is Concerned With The Procedures Of Learning And Teaching Appropriate To Such A Curriculum. Intro -- The Philosophy Of Primary Education An Introduction -- Copyright -- The Philosophy Of Primary Education An Introduction -- Original Copyright -- The Students Library Of Education -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One The Changing Concept Of The Primary School -- The Elementary School Tradition -- Two Formative Influences -- Change And Uncertainty -- Chapter Two Aims ( 1 ): Needs And Interests -- Needs -- Interests -- Chapter Three Aims ( 2 ): Growth -- Maturation, Child Development And Readiness -- Essential Natures And Natural Goodness -- Dewey On Growth -- Growth And Persons -- Chapter Four Aims ( 3 ): A Curriculum -- The Plowden Report On Aims -- Religion And Values -- Values And The Curriculum -- Forms Of Understanding -- The Division Of Forms -- Understanding And Choice -- Understanding And The Emotions -- Values And The Primary School Curriculum -- Curriculum Content -- Procedural Values -- Organization And Methods -- Chapter Five Play As An Educational Process -- Historical Introduction -- The Concept Of Play -- Theories Of Play -- Chapter Six Learning And Experience -- Verbalism And Experience -- The Concept Of Experience -- Perceptual Concepts -- Practical Concepts -- Theoretical Concepts -- Experience And Teaching -- Concrete, Abstract And Logical Priority -- Learning And Theoretical Concepts -- The Liberalization Of Teaching -- Chapter Seven Activity, Self-expression And The Arts -- The Concept Of A Human Activity -- Activity, Learning And 'activity Methods' -- Self-expression, Creativity And The Arts -- Self-expression -- Creativity -- Teaching And The Arts -- Chapter Eight Moral Education -- Morality And Religion -- The Autonomy Of Ethics -- Religion And Autonomy -- Moral Education -- General Concepts And Particular Applications -- Knowing How To Behave -- Authoritarianism And Rational Authority. Moral Education And The Primary School -- Bibliography -- Suggestions For Further Reading -- Index.