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The elementary school curriculum

Title
The elementary school curriculum / by Frederick Gordon Bonser.
Author
Bonser, Frederick G. (Frederick Gordon), 1875-1931.
Publication
New York : The Macmillan Company, 1922, ©1920.

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Description
xvi, 466 pages; 19 cm
Summary
This book is offered as a practical help to teachers, supervisors, principals, and superintendents in the improvement of the elementary school curriculum. An underlying theme is the possibility of organizing a curriculum upon the basis of the activities of life in which children engage, as opposed to subjects in which few are engaged. This book is an intermediate step from the wasteful, unsatisfactory organization currently in place toward a more desirable method. It presents a pragmatic pedagogy, with definite aims, direct methods, and appreciable results. The relationships of purpose, content, and method place a high premium upon effort, and immediate, individual and cooperative activity under the guidance of social ideals.
Subject
  • Education > Curricula
  • Curriculum planning > United States
  • Education, Elementary > United States
  • Curriculum planning > United States > Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • Curriculum
  • curricula
  • Curriculum planning
  • Education, Elementary
  • Curriculumplanung
  • Grundschule
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Handbook
  • Handbooks and manuals.
  • Guides et manuels.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes index.
Contents
The curriculum as related to the aims of education -- General mental content which determines or controls conduct -- The general aims of life in terms of purposeful activities -- The periods of education in terms of life purposes -- The emergence of the curriculum from life activities -- The project method and the curriculum -- Illustrations of two types of project organization -- How the aims of life are promoted by the respective kinds of subject matter -- The practical arts -- Geography -- Arithmetic -- History -- English -- Fine arts -- Music -- Physical education and hygiene -- Citizenship and the curriculum -- How to use this book in improving curricula.
LCCN
20017517
OCLC
  • ocm00766812
  • 766812
  • SCSB-163390
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library